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Alrighty. So starting out with the human impacts on national parks.
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So first comes the problem overcrowding in national parks
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um it's it's going really crazy right now,
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humans are going to national parks way too much.
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They've made the situation worse.
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Um and they're going to certain national parks all at the same time.
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So that's making way too many people there to be able to
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sustain the living that is already there according to
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an author with the last name of tannins,
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overcrowding is going to lead to erosion or the
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creation of visitor made trails because of the limited trail
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space and eventually that can be destructive to the ecosystem
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that's already there and the wildlife that's already coexisting.
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Unfortunately, that's had a larger impact than we really think about.
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Um
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So the impact is going to be,
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there's limited trail space destruction of ecosystems and even erosion.
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The impact is
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being very crazy because this issue makes it extremely difficult to keep
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the park clean and healthy and even sustainable in its own ecosystem.
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The wildlife and ecosystems that are already there are going
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to be destroyed
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and even will lead to the migration of
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that wildlife or even extinction in some areas.
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Um some solutions that I do think would work would be making reservations,
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so it may help control the amount of people going through the parks, which would also
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reduce overcrowding and new trails being made and all of that kind of stuff. Um
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the way you could do that was either like create a website for it or create
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like a phone line that you could call in and make reservations in a book and then
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you would get let in or you could call and let them
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know that you're there and so they could open the gates or
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something like that.
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Um
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Another thing could be
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advertisements for sure, changing the national parks advertisements
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to also mention like city parks or smaller parks or even other national
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parks that people could also spread out and enjoy the outdoors with and um
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also just kind of
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maintain the ecosystem in that way because hypothetically speaking,
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let's say someone's going to Yellowstone and there's
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a big crowd of people going to Yellowstone,
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but
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there are so many other parks around that area that you
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could go to or you could go from west to south,
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you can go to different areas of the park, so it's not in the same specific area.
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Um
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Another thing that I saw in an article was charging like small child fees,
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which this one um it could go either way honestly, so
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charging
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a little fee like a dollar or so for Children,
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it might lead to a decrease in people going to the
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parks because of being charged and that kind of stuff,
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but it also might help with funding
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for the park a little bit more. I know it's only a dollar per child or so, but
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depending on the amount of people that are going depends on
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that and if you make it a small and reasonable charge,
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it wouldn't be too misleading towards other people to make them not want to come
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um which I think would be really good
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um personally,
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so this could also be um you could definitely
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make different um
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solutions of course too
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overcrowding and such, but um
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I guess another way that you could put up
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advertisements that could be a little bit more natural is
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you could put the money for like the fees or
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reservations and that kind of stuff.
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You could put it towards making like tv ads or online ads.
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So each of the parks could have their own website and put
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ads out there saying like hey right now our park is full,
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there are a few parks around here if you wanted to go to them
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until you can go to this specific park or
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in replacement of this park or something like that. Um
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I just think honestly that would be a great idea
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because it can
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of course reduced the amount of overcrowding and
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also it might be able to up the amount of funding for the
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park so that they can still restore the ecosystems and keep them cohesively
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natural and going how they need to be