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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Social Carrying Capacity The use of parks and protected areas by visitors creates concern about appropriate levels of use because there are limits that define how much pressure from outside forces an ecosystem can endure before it experiences degradation‚ and there are thresholds that define visitor experiences. When researchers‚ park authorities‚ and policy makers are trying to determine appropriate usage levels of specific areas‚ they frequently rely on the rationale of carrying capacity‚ including
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Natural Resources and Energy Paper The first national park in the United States was the Yellowstone National Park‚ which was created in 1872. At this time‚ the concept of a national park was new for people. However‚ it was a great concept because it allowed people the ability to preserve and protect the best of what they had for the benefit and enjoyment of all future generations. Yellowstone National Park is located in a rugged region where the states of Idaho‚ Wyoming‚ and Montana come together
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Park Information Kakadu is open to visitors every day of the year. One of the first stops in your visit to the park should be the Bowali Visitor Centre‚ where our friendly staff can provide information on where the best places are to visit‚ dry season activities‚ and wet season access updates. Biodiversity is the variety of life - the different plants‚ animals‚ insects and all other life forms and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Kakadu’s stunning biodiversity is internationally recognised
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1906‚ President Theodore Roosevelt established the area as a National Park‚ protecting it under the law and opening the sites to the public. Since then‚ new additions have been made to area‚ including museums‚ guided tours‚ visitor centers‚ restaurants‚ camping areas‚ lodging areas‚ and hiking trails so that visitors can explore and learn the history and impressive architecture and lives of the Pueblo Indians. The
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availability of automobiles causing the increased need for roads‚ the “federal government increasingly willing to fund recreational development on the nation’s public lands‚” and the growing consumerism as tourist visiting the national parks. Following the creation of the National Park Service (NPS) in 1916‚ there developed a growing need of Americans to get back to nature and explore the nation’s wilderness. Thanks to Henry Ford’s development of the Model “T” and the cheap cost of purchasing it‚
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The Everglades National Park The Everglades are a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida‚ comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The Everglades are shaped by water and fire‚ experiencing frequent flooding in the wet season and drought in the dry season. Like most regions with this climate type‚ there are two basic seasons - a "dry season " (winter) which runs from November through April‚ and a "wet season" (summer) which runs
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things about this state. I also would also like to visit Yellowstone national Park A lot of First were named an established in the state of Wyoming. For Example Wyoming is the first state to have a county library in the city of Laramie. This was organized in 1886 of August. In the western regions of Wyoming‚ in 1872. Congress named Yellowstone National park as the first national park in the world. The First national Forest was signed by President Benjamin Harrison. Shoshone Forest‚
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