Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
- Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University
Ski resorts in Colorado can make snow, but it only goes so far.
Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
Thanks to the power of writer Wallace Stegner, Americans have for decades been able to put words to the importance wilderness holds in the nation’s history and imagination.
It’s hard to preserve national parks “unimpaired,” as US law directs, when they’re overrun with tourists who stray off paths, strew trash and harass wildlife. A parks scholar calls for crowd control.
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