How America's National Parks Became Critically Crowded With Tourists - Cheddar Explains
May 26, 2020
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as posted by the channelVisitation to National Park Service sites has seen a boom in recent years. For five years in a row, the park service has tallied over 300 million visitors per year. It’s an unprecedented spike, and the reason why this is happening now goes deeper than social media alone. While the threat of COVID-19 will likely change those numbers this year, the park service is still figuring out how to regain the balance between preservation and visitation. Cheddar explains the history of crowding in America’s national parks, and the impacts we are seeing from that today.
Further Reading:
National Park Service
University of Nebraska Press, National Parks: The American Experience by Alfred Runte
University of Oklahoma Press: Parks, Politics, and the People. By Conrad L. Wirth
The Salt Lake Tribune
National Parks Conservation Association
PBS
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