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Get rid of scenic drives/viewpoints and park attendance would crater. Most trails that are more than a few miles long are rarely busy.
by zozin 6y ago
Get rid of scenic drives/viewpoints and park attendance would crater. Most trails that are more than a few miles long are rarely busy.
- jay_kyburz 6y agoThere is lots you can do to improve the preservation of the parks, but the article suggests that that is not the current goal and that the US currently prefers to make parks available to people to enjoy with cars, mountain bikes, and skidoos. There is always a balance between preservation and use of the parks.
- ryandrake 6y agoAlso ban smartphones. This would repel the other 50% who are only there with their narcisticks taking selfies for their Insta.
- knobcore 6y agonah it's too much of a problem in other areas, see the comment i made above. we need to seriously raise the bar, socially. back in the dialup days we actually read the political stuff, actually contributed to interesting things, kind of like how the 60s was or punk was before the masses who are only interested in the hip factor got a hold of it and simply wore it as a fashion statement. then it died.
- bostonsre 6y agoI'd bet that would repel more than 50%. Or maybe someone could write some deep fake tools that would help limit attendance. They are amazing places to visit, but feel like we could preserve parks better if we enforced better self control somehow. I also wonder how many are inspired to treat the environment better after a visit. Maybe those national park visits are a net positive for the environment.
- khuey 6y agoIndeed. It's not hard to get a wilderness permit in Yosemite (as long as you don't pick the same five trails everybody else does on a weekend) walk a few miles into the wilderness and see a handful of other people a day. Doing anything with a parking spot is an absolute nightmare though.
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