National Parks Research Paper
National Parks It has taken decades and continuous generational work to increase the areas of land that are protected from the drastic changes that humans bring to nature. Because of the labor of past generations, great amounts of effort have been forthput to protect regions of forests, deserts, bodies of water, and more. There is a great need to preserve the current National Parks across the nation, and continue to create new preservations to maintain the natural beauty of our nation. Dating back to around the 1870’s is largely considered to be the birth period of the first National Park, Yellowstone National Park(Birth). The future park was discovered by explorers who dared to go beyond the line of civilization and venture into the wilderness.
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As stated by National Geographic “Eighty percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes.” This adds cause as to why there is a greater importance to saving national forests, because not only for the animals sake but for human's sake as well. If the reckless deforestation continues it would offset the balance of Earth’s ecosystem and, simply put, would eventually end all life. So what the government and other organizations have done is they created a park service that is there to protect and maintain the parks. The earliest form of the park rangers were men from the army, sent because the men who had attempted before to protect the park had failed(Birth). Through later years and more development the ranger service would continue to grow and improve upon its doings(Birth). Because of this however, it has created numerous jobs across the nation that are all in the group effort “to protect, preserve, and improve the Park(s)”(Birth). Among the many sobering and weighted facts of what could go wrong without the National Parks, there is a more uplifting side to the story behind the importance of these national gems. And that has to do with the amount of everyday people that enjoy, learn, grow, and prosper by and through the many different pockets of pure
As stated by National Geographic “Eighty percent of Earth’s land animals and plants live in forests, and many cannot survive the deforestation that destroys their homes.” This adds cause as to why there is a greater importance to saving national forests, because not only for the animals sake but for human's sake as well. If the reckless deforestation continues it would offset the balance of Earth’s ecosystem and, simply put, would eventually end all life. So what the government and other organizations have done is they created a park service that is there to protect and maintain the parks. The earliest form of the park rangers were men from the army, sent because the men who had attempted before to protect the park had failed(Birth). Through later years and more development the ranger service would continue to grow and improve upon its doings(Birth). Because of this however, it has created numerous jobs across the nation that are all in the group effort “to protect, preserve, and improve the Park(s)”(Birth). Among the many sobering and weighted facts of what could go wrong without the National Parks, there is a more uplifting side to the story behind the importance of these national gems. And that has to do with the amount of everyday people that enjoy, learn, grow, and prosper by and through the many different pockets of pure