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I don't know if this topic has been done before but what area do you think should be a national park that currently is not one? I really love the royal gorge in Colorado and it made me realize how many beautiful areas don't make the cut. Another area is the black hills of south Dakota. I know badlands is a NP but I like the black hills better. Its true they aren't as tall as the Rockies but some of the rock formations are very unique. Imo, they feel like a more than just foothills to the Rockies. FYI the black hills are a national forest and not a national park. What other areas to do ya got?
Black History is finally gaining some traction as far as funding and preservation efforts so perhaps the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad NHP in Maryland. https://www.nps.gov/hatu/index.htm
National park candidates have to include diversity of ecosystems or other unusual convergence of natural and/or historic features, among other criteria. They can’t just be scenic.
New Mexico's congressional delegation are trying to upgrade two existing national monuments in the state to national park status, Bandelier and White Sands.
I don't know if this topic has been done before but what area do you think should be a national park that currently is not one? I really love the royal gorge in Colorado and it made me realize how many beautiful areas don't make the cut. Another area is the black hills of south Dakota. I know badlands is a NP but I like the black hills better. Its true they aren't as tall as the Rockies but some of the rock formations are very unique. Imo, they feel like a more than just foothills to the Rockies. FYI the black hills are a national forest and not a national park. What other areas to do ya got?
Wind Cave is a national park within the Black Hills.
I think the next national park to come online is Indiana Dunes. Technically, I think it's an NP already, but it's a very small space comparatively and needs a lot of work IMO.
National Parks are overrated and just attract hordes of tourists and create infrastucture that diminishes the solitude and natural character of areas of great natural grandeur.
I don't think we should designate any more national parks or monuments, until we can protect the ones we already have. Some are threatened with resource exploitation, while others have been reduced in size by executive order, to a tiny fraction of their original size. I'm not sure what the point is, in designating new parks, if the decisions are going to be reversed, and resource exploitation concessions in existing parks are going to be handed out to corporations. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...onal-monuments
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On a visit to Utah on Monday, [Dec. 2017] President Trump announced his proclamations dramatically shrinking the size of the state's two massive national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. Taken together, Trump's orders mark the largest reversal of national monument protections in U.S. history.
The Bears Ears National Monument will go from roughly 1.3 million acres to roughly 228,000 — only about 15 percent of its original size. And Grand Staircase will be diminished by roughly half,
I don't think we should designate any more national parks or monuments, until we can protect the ones we already have. Some are threatened with resource exploitation, while others have been reduced in size by executive order, to a tiny fraction of their original size. I'm not sure what the point is, in designating new parks, if the decisions are going to be reversed, and resource exploitation concessions in existing parks are going to be handed out to corporations. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...onal-monuments
The original size of Grand Staircase-Escalante is about the same as the size of the state of Connecticut. That seems like a lot of land to "steal" from Utah and make off-limits for their own uses.
As for the OP's question, I would have picked Monument Valley, except that I think it's already a Tribal National Park. So I guess that's out.
Somewhat related to this is the status of Midway Island (site of the Battle of Midway in World War II) in the Pacific. It is currently designated as the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and Battle of Midway National Memorial. It's run by the Fish and Wildlife Service, whose mission is to protect the wildlife -- at the expense of letting humans actually go there and see it for themselves. I'd like to see it transferred to the control of the National Park Service, as they are used to protecting locations of historic and natural significance while still allowing human access.
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