"In some ways, I think about the challenges as being sometimes a death by a thousand cuts. Tom Miner Basin, north of Yellowstone National Park, is home to ranch land and also to predators that travel in and out of the park . America's national parks face existential crisis over race Jump to women's shirts National parks face overcrowding as COVID-19 pandemic continues The Disneyfication of national parks like Zion, Yosemite, Yellowstone and others created a new phenomena of visitors "loving our national parks to death. WASHINGTON - Spending by a record number of national park visitors in 2015 provided a $32 billion benefit to the nation's economy and supported 295,000 jobs, according to a report released today by National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. To combat congestion, a number of national parks including Glacier and Yosemite have implemented reservations systems . Crisis in our national parks: How tourists are loving nature to death NOW with Bill Moyers. Science & Health. Preserving Our Parks - Overview ... Thousands of people are expected to gather at the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park on Aug. 25 to celebrate a uniquely American idea. Congress proposes national park reservation systems amid overcrowding . That's not love. Support parks all year long by scheduling a monthly gift. The Senate's National Parks Subcommittee, which Sen. Angus King chairs, addressed the problem of overcrowding in the most popular parks Wednesday morning. ‎Loving Our Lands To Death on Apple Podcasts