National Parks and Air Traffic

National park and air traffic 1, Introduction In 1999, 5 million tourists visited the Grand Canyon National Park. Approximately 40% of the 5 million tourists are not Americans - Germans, French people, and Japanese leaders. Grand Canyon National Park brings millions of dollars of travel funds to the region each year. In addition to driving to the South Rim and spending the day, one of the most popular ways to see the canyon is an airplane or a helicopter. About 800 thousand people are jumping over the valley every year.

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This is not an isolated issue. The report released last year by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) found that each of the 48 national parks protected by the largest air pollution control law suffered from serious air pollution problems. In fact, the air quality of the park sometimes is worse or worse than some major cities. One third of the air pollution levels in these parks are in danger of particularly sensitive people, such as one in ten children of an American with asthma.

Most visitors want a clean view of the air and the park. However, the Mammoth Cave National Park (KP) in Kentucky has the world's longest recorded cave system and a scenic river valley, which is relatively inferior in air quality. This park is located in the leeward of many sources of air pollution, such as power plants, urban areas, industries in Kentucky and Tennessee states. Pollutants released from these sources can damage the natural and scenic resources of the park such as highlands surface waters, plants, fish, bats, sight and so on. Through science, policy and planning, the National Park Service deal with the impact of air pollution in the Mammoth Cave National Park and national parks, and we are doing our utmost.

A national park - a place that should have the highest air quality in that country - may fight air pollution, but reality is one of the most serious threats it is facing today, which is contrary to intuition Seem. Pollution from power plants, automobiles, oil and gas development, and other sources of pollution has caused many of these Americans to cloud in the shadow, threatening the health of tourists, rangers and wildlife, causing climate change. This is not an isolated issue. The report released last year by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) found that each of the 48 national parks protected by the largest air pollution control law suffered from serious air pollution problems. In fact, the air quality of the park sometimes is worse or worse than some major cities. One third of the air pollution levels in these parks are in danger of particularly sensitive people, such as one in ten children of an American with asthma.