physical environment of South Africa’s third-largest city‚ Table Mountain - now protected within a national park that covers some 75% of the peninsula - remains at Cape Town’s heart. This ever present backdrop is the city’s adventure playground‚ as well as a source of legend and continuing spiritual nourishment. Under the Khoisan name of Hoerikwaggo - meaning ’Mountain in the Sea’ - the national park is promoting a new series of trails that will allow visitors‚ for the first time‚ to sleep on the
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that Native Americans inhabited the lands of what is now Yellowstone National Park for more than 11‚000 years‚ until approximately 200 years ago‚ when European settlers began to drive many of them from their homelands. In 1872 Yellowstone was declared the world’s first national park as a way to preserve and protect the land for the “benefit and enjoyment of future generations.” (National Park Service) Yellowstone National Park covers a vast area in the Northwestern United States. Its landscape
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pleasure is Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park is a national park located primarily in Wyoming‚ although it also extends into Montana and Idaho. It was established by the United States congress and signed into law by President Ullysses S. Grant on March 1‚ 1872. It is three thousand four hundred and sixty eight square miles. It also is the oldest‚ largest and most popular national park in the continental United States. Yellowstone National Park is so famous and popular
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place known as Providence Canyon? If you have not noticed the federal government is going to make a decision about how the canyon is going to be a national park. I think‚ in my opinion‚ the government should make Providence Canyon a national park. If Providence Canyon were a state park only the people of that state can only visit‚ but if it were a national park‚ people would see how magnificent the canyon really is. Providence Canyon is needed to be visited by people who cannot see the wonders
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America— including Yellowstone National Park. Unfortunately‚ however‚ even respectful snowmobilers are unwittingly damaging what they love. Because snowmobiles create both air and noise pollution and because their use in the park strains the already lean budget of the park service‚ recreational snowmobiles should be banned from Yellowstone National Park. In 2002‚ the Bush administration‚ under pressure from the snowmobile industry‚ proposed to reverse the National Park Service’s 2000 plan that would
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D‚Ferguson Radiant Red Rock One of the most unique and special National Parks to me is Zion in Utah. The Colorado Plateau region lies along the side of Zion. This Park is very beautiful and has many different attributes to it but with out a doubt its red dirt and mountains are wonders. Zion is 229 square miles (147‚551 acres) and has around 75 species of mammals‚ 271 birds‚ 32 reptiles and amphibians‚ 8 fish. The rock layers have been through so much; for example‚ they have been
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Olmsted was best known for the creation of the New York City Central Park. He was a strong proponent of conserving the Yosemite scenery and predicted that Yosemite will attract millions of people; “far noblest park or pleasuring ground in the world.” Interestingly enough‚ at the start‚ Olmsted did not like Yosemite’s landscape. Slowly he fell under its spell. His first action was to hire geologists
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Stephen Tyng Mather (1867-1930) Stephen Tyng Mather was an industrialist and conservationist. He was known for his efforts to protect national parks. In his life time Mather had occupations as a businessman‚ a newspaper reporter‚ a naturalist‚ co-founder of the Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company‚ and the first director of the National Park Service. Stephen was born in San Francisco‚ California on July 4th‚ 1867 to Joseph Mather and Berth Jemima Walker. He received his education at the private Boys’
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This act actually established a way for Americans to protect and preserve the most valuable wildlands for future generations. For the first time ever‚ it provided protection for Wilderness in the federal statutes. Moreover‚ this act created the National Wilderness Preservation System‚ which includes nowadays approximately 110 million acres of wild American lands‚ protecting them as designated wilderness whichever means the highest level of protection of the nation’s lands. A designated wilderness
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of sustainable development into the tourism industry by defining as‚ ‘Sustainable tourism involves meeting the needs of visitors and the local community while protecting and boosting the tourism attraction for the future concurrently as part of a national economic supply. It is envisaged as leading to management of all resources in such a way that economic‚ social‚ and aesthetic needs can be fulfilled while maintaining cultural integrity‚ essential ecological processes‚ and biological diversity and
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