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National Parks are the sacrificed land that gets people interested in preserving public land. It's much easier to get national support to "Save Yellowstone" tha
by MikeKusold 6y ago
National Parks are the sacrificed land that gets people interested in preserving public land. It's much easier to get national support to "Save Yellowstone" than to get people to care about saving Bridger-Teton National Forrest. However, the policies that benefit one often benefit the other.
Let as many people in to Yellowstone as possible so that they can look back on that one trip through Wyoming and feel like they have a personal interest in saving our public lands.
- bkandel 6y agoI think it's a bit more nuanced than this -- even within the "name-brand" national parks, like Yosemite or Yellowstone, the sacrificed part has the hotels and other facilities that cater to humans, but there's still a ton of land that is actually preserved and is ecologically significant. E.g. 90% of Yosemite is preserved wilderness with much more limited access to humans than in the valley (cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park#National_Park_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park#Nationa...).