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Yellowstone national park |
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first national park in the world preserves extensive wilderness try to make it as it was before human habitation |
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demands and dangers for our parks |
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many parks are islands of nature surrounded and threatened by destuctive land uses and humans traffic jams and pollution b/c of how crowded some can get visitors demand services mining and oil interests try to get permissions to drill in the parks |
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an entire ecosystem and its land, water, air, and wildlife resources this must be managed as a unit |
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| forests that cover a large enough area and have been undisturbed by humans long enough that trees can live out a natural life cycle and ecological processes can occur normally |
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the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural
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