Analysis: National Parks Are Not America's Best Idea

National Parks Are Not America's Best Idea. National parks definitely have a big significance in American history that is not even a question. What is questioned is just how important national parks are. People like Wallace Stegner, or Ken Burns believe that national parks are America’s best idea; however, people like Clay Jenkinson, director of The Dakota Institute, or Alan Spears, of High County News, would agree that National parks are indeed not the greatest idea of America. Clay Jenkinson directly said, “National parks are not America’s best idea” (The National Parks; America’s Best Idea). Obviously it is a split issue on just how important the National Parks really are but clearly National Parks is not America’s greatest ide. Firstly, national parks are developed by racism of the
No matter what national park visitors go to there is one thing in common; littering, graffiti, destruction, and the proof of human existence. The whole idea behind of the national parks is to preserve the parks from human destruction but clearly that hasn’t worked. Even in regular parks when there is enough human activity there will be destruction of nature. The approach of the national parks is too lax. Unless there is to be an increased budget or other advances the national parks are just going to continue to decay. So many people have a negative attitude towards preserving the parks. Education is also something vital that just implemented. Today common knowledge is not that common. Take for instance the dad and son that took a baby bison in their car because they thought that it was cold and lost. That should have been easily avoidable. Clearly the attempts to preserve the national parks while letting so much freedom in the parks is a futile struggle. Even when education is pushed such as trying to stop forest fires. The Smokey the bear campaign without a doubt helped but even today wildfires are still very