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BCSnob
Jun 10, 2021Explorer
Perhaps the 1900s mission statement for the NPS should be updated for the modern more populous time and the increasing population of the future and focus more on preventing the adverse impacts of visitation on the land/natural resources it has been entrusted to preserve (wild lands, not a drive through safari park).
How A Surge in Visitors Is Overwhelming America’s National Parks
JULY 31, 2017
![](https://e360.yale.edu/assets/site/BrianHughes_HalfDome2006_330948.jpg)
A crowd waits to ascend the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. BRIAN HUGHES/SUMMITPOST
![](https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/news/images/Gore-Range-to-Rock-Cut-congestion-7-24-16-Bonnie-Beach.jpg)
Trail ridge rd 2017
How A Surge in Visitors Is Overwhelming America’s National Parks
JULY 31, 2017
![](https://e360.yale.edu/assets/site/BrianHughes_HalfDome2006_330948.jpg)
A crowd waits to ascend the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. BRIAN HUGHES/SUMMITPOST
![](https://www.nps.gov/romo/learn/news/images/Gore-Range-to-Rock-Cut-congestion-7-24-16-Bonnie-Beach.jpg)
Trail ridge rd 2017
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