Taxpayer Calculator: The Importance Of National Parks

Research Paper National parks have been under threat sense the day they got created and they now face new and surprising threats by free development, the human appropriation of natural resources that the parks require, and fundamental changes in climate. “If we let our parks become fenced, static, ecologically impoverished oases in a sea of unsustainable development, they will cease being the living wonders envisioned by their founders.”(Gleick) What this quote is saying is that if we let the national parks get developed that they will be ruined and no more enjoyable parts of Mother Nature we be able to be appreciated. National parks first got started in 1872 and Yellowstone was the first one in the United States. They did it to preserve the land and its beauty, wildlife, and to use it as a symbol of national pride. There is such a long history now with national parks and it’d be a shame to see it get ruined by developers and natural resource projects. This…show more content…
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