The National Park Service group should have their funds significantly cut by the Federal Government. In today's growing age of technology, there is no benefit aside from personal pleasure to go to national parks, their is also the issue that no one is interested nor has enough time to go to the national parks. The parks are not bringing in as much money as they once were, and the areas that are protected can be used for many more productive means than what they are used for now. Directing the funds allocated to the National Park Services elsewhere, would allow more promising projects to prosper. This change would create jobs, and opportunities for others, encourage people to embrace technology, instead of vilifying them for using it, and then …show more content…
Witnessing the change from huge, black and white TV’s to tiny TV’s that stream instant video clearer than some people's vision in just fifty years, and now people have the knowledge of everything at their fingertips at all times. This change has altered the people as well. Their is no need to go to Parks anymore. In the article “Can the Selfie Generation Unplug and Get Into Parks?” by Timothy, and Casey Egan, The director of the National Park Services, Jonathan Jarvis stated, “Young people are more separated from the world than perhaps any generation before them”(Egan and Egan). However, this is simply because their is no reason to go to parks. People do not need to know how to live in the wild anymore. There are many more pastimes, and if someone wishes to see something like the Grand Canyon, they could just google it. Electronics are many people's livelihoods, another excerpt from the same article states “ The technology question is trickier. Young people devote more than seven hours a day to electronic …show more content…
Before the revenue brought into the state from these national parks made most of the money for the state as a whole, but considering the visiting rates for all of these parks have significantly lowered, their is no benefit to keeping them anymore. Allowing companies to work on the parks would bring more jobs to the state, and in so bring more money, other than the parks just costing money due to maintenance. An article called “Americans Think National Parks Are Worth Way More than We Spend on Them” by Linda J. Bilems and John Loomis, has priced the national parks in the US at about ninety two billion dollars. Shown here “ Our results showed that Americans put a total value of $92 billion per year on our national parks, monuments, seashores and recreation areas.” (Bilmes and Loomis). This ninety two billion dollars could be potentially doubled by successful companies that sprouted up in the area, and the money gained could be used for anything else beneficial in the states such as better education, a bigger military budget, or
Do you want to hear about the first national park that is the first and only dedicated to a president? Theodore Roosevelt National Park was established in 1947. The Mountains are over 55 million years old. The badlands of Theodore Roosevelt national park is dry with occasional monsoon showers. The park is located in Medora, North Dakota, and is home to some amazing animals including wild horses, reptiles and mammals.
There are more than twenty-thousand employees that work in a wide reaching variety of organizations and disciplines. The employees work from the parks, to covering specific regions, to working in national programs throughout the National Park Service. At the top of the National Park Service is a Director who is supported by senior executives who manage national programs, policy, and budget in the Washington, DC, headquarters, and seven regional directors responsible for national park management and program implementation. In addition to the employees there are park partners and volunteers who work in a boots on the ground type of role in the
There should be no man made machinery operating in the park unless absolutely necessary. The creation of the National Park Service is to preserve wilderness in a way that gives people the opportunity to experience nature in all its wonder. It was never intended to create amusement parks where people never leave the safety of the modern age and look at the natural world through glass. Being completely enveloped in nature has many benefits, from physical such as lowering blood pressure, to psychological in boosting moods. According to Tyler Tapps in Parks & Recreation: “Recent research indicates that outdoor activity is associated with positive mental and physical benefits, including increased cardiovascular function, decreased stress levels, and reduced blood pressure” (Tapps). Abbey understood this, as did many Americans. Today however the number of people willing to immerse themselves in the nations parks is decreasing. In Desert Solitaire, abbey puts it this way: “A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourist can in a hundred miles” (Abbey). Today many members of the younger generation have lost that sense of joy and wonder in the outdoor setting. This change would bring back the love of nature in this
parks system is a great way to get away. If we continue to allow our parks to
The creation of the computer and the Internet has significantly furthered and revolutionized Parks and Recreation Districts across the country. Parks and Recreation Management is a profession that has been able to prosper with the Internet and personal computers today. Recreation in the present day is becoming especially popular due to a general decrease in working hours because of the economy. With many people having more free time, more demands are put on the Parks and Recreation districts. Also with the many national, state, and private parks in the United States, it is crucial for the park systems to have a systematic approach to dealing with these new demands. The computer and Internet has become the answer to this problem.
Since its creation in 1916, the National Park Service (NPS) has had to balance between its two goals, which are to preserve wilderness and nature and to provide the public with access to these wonders in a monitored environment. These two goals tend to create a conflict for the NPS because as soon as one goal is given more priority than the other, the administration of national parks is harshly criticized by the public. The accusation that by allowing people to experience the wilderness, the NPS is corrupting the natural environment is very common, as well, as the criticism towards the lack of government funding to preserve nature and history. However, regardless of arguable criticism and a certain need for improvement, after one hundred years,
We must fight against so much corruption, that we don’t seem to be able to make any new strides in national park building. I didn’t know that the US had camps for Japanese citizens during WW2, I’m glad that they got some peace from the national parks.
National Parks are a thing of true beauty, in order to maintain these national treasures, it took a lot of Laws, Movements, and Important key figures in history to preserve these national beauties. The national parks are treasure that people would have turned into ruins. The killings of wildlife, leaving trash everywhere, and cutting-down trees. George Grinnell saw the wonderland that's was being ruined and he fought for the preservation of the park and its wildlife.
Run by and administered by the appropriate people, the money can be used for infrastructure development, public safety, and public health care. I don’t know about you, but I think our capital city, Montgomery, has a lot of room for improvement in downtown. If only we had the funds, we could development finer buildings and attractions. Also in California, they offer free health care! Alabama as well as the whole US would already be a better place with free health care.
Have you ever felt stuck? Wherever you are, it’s the absolute last place you want to be. In the book Into the Wild, Chris McCandless feels stuck just like the average everyday person may feel. Chris finds his escape plan to the situation and feels he will free himself by going off to the wild. I agree with the author that Chris McCandless wasn’t a crazy person, a sociopath, or an outcast because he got along with many people very well, but he did seem somewhat incompetent, even though he survived for quite some time.
“… It is apparent, then, that we cannot decide the question of development versus preservation by a simple referral to holy writ or an attempt to guess the intention of the founding fathers; we must make up our own minds and decide for ourselves what the national parks should be and what purpose they should serve.”-Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire
Our modern day society depends on technology for everything, can anyone imagine a life without their phone or computer? Probably not, social media and other popular applications have become so ingrained into our daily lives. Not only can we connect with people anytime throughout the day but we also have so many useful applications that help us on a daily basis. Thinking back to when I was eight years old, I couldn 't wait for sixth grade because my parents had promised to get me a cell phone, I remember counting down the days till the summer of fifth grade was over because I already knew which cell phone I wanted. Once I got it I couldn’t stop showing my mom all of the cool things it could do. Which looking back at it today, it really couldn
Along with all the positive aspects to national parks, there are many negatives that come to count. History has shown many examples of the challenges faced with protected areas, along with the solutions. National parks are likely to come into contact with several conflicts containing: wildlife removal further affecting
What if it was said that all of the National Parks were closing because no one is funding them anymore, would you be upset? Many people would be because it is something to do with your family on a long, boring day or maybe because they just like going to National Parks. Closing down National Parks would stop people from seeing the beautiful things in America, cause things to become extinct, and also would end with a lot of protests and angry people. National Parks make billions of dollars a year and 15 percent of the costs, go to the government but the parks need funds to do new things and buy items that the people may want. For instance, Yellowstone, Ellis Island, and any other famous parks that are visited, all have a different story that protects America.
Well that’s simple. It was designed way back in the 1800, for the public. The land, over 750 acres, was given from the New York State Legislator, in 1853, to create the first major landscaped park, in central Manhattan. The state held a competition of what design the park was going to have. Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won the competition in 1858. The park held up well at first. People respected the land. During the early 1900’s, the park took a great downfall. Instead of it begin known for its beauty, it was known for the illegal activity that was going on. Eventually the state got together and realized they were failing on their duties. Robert Moses, the park commissioner from 1934-1960, got approved from federal funding’s, to restore most structures. Again, after he left office, the depression was also in place, the park went back down a dark path. The people lost care in the park. In 1974, park funders got management together to raise more money to restore the park once again. Latter down the road Doug Blonsley started working with a woman, named Betsey, in 1993- 2008. The park hasn’t seen any better days, than the days of today. All it took is a little care and the park is looking better than it ever have in the last 150