National Parks, Wilderness, and Protected Areas in the United States

Author(s):  
Scott Brennan ◽  
John C. Miles
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 44-45
Author(s):  
Alwyn Eades

Costa Rica is amazing. You probably know that Costa Rica has no armed forces and that fully a quarter of its area is given over to national parks and other protected areas. You probably don't know that Costa Rica is also amazing for its electron microscopy. Almost anonymously Costa Rica has a center for electron microscopy on a par with centers in the United States or Europe.El Centro de Investigation en Estructuras Microscopicas, CIEMIC (The Center for Microstructural Research) has its own purpose-built building with an infrastructure that would make most of us envious.


Author(s):  
Stephen M. Cohen ◽  
Brenda H. Cohen

America’s Scientific Treasures is a comprehensive travel guide, designed for adults, that takes the reader to well-known and lesser-known sites of scientific and technological interest in the United States. The book is divided into nine geographical chapters. Subdivided by states, each chapter is represented by its scientific and technological treasures, including museums, arboretums, zoos, national parks, planetariums, natural or technological points of interest, and the homes of famous scientists. While the book is aimed at adults, many of the sites may also be of interest to teens and younger children. The traveler is provided with essential information, including addresses, telephone numbers, hours of entry, handicapped access, dining facilities, dates open and closed, available public transportation, and websites. Nearly every site included here has been visited by the authors. Although written with scientists in mind, this book is for anyone who likes to travel and visit places of historical and scientific interest. Included are photographs of many sites within each state.


Bird-Banding ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Margaret Morse Nice ◽  
J. S. Dixon ◽  
George M. Wright ◽  
B. H. Thompson

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. e0154223 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Travis Belote ◽  
Matthew S. Dietz ◽  
Brad H. McRae ◽  
David M. Theobald ◽  
Meredith L. McClure ◽  
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Author(s):  
Thomas J. Stohlgren ◽  
Lloyd L. Loope ◽  
Lori J. Makarick

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary D. Miller ◽  
Ben Lawhon ◽  
B. Derrick Taff ◽  
Forrest Schwartz ◽  
Peter Newman

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Paul Sutton ◽  
Sophia Duncan ◽  
Sharolyn Anderson

The annual budget for the United States National Park Service was roughly $3 billion in 2016. This is distributed amongst 405 National Parks, 23 national scenic and historic trails, and 60 wild and scenic rivers. Entrance fees and concessions generate millions of dollars in income for the National Park Service; however, this metric fails to account for the total value of the National Parks. In failing to consider the value of the ecosystem services provided by the National Parks, we fail to quantify and appreciate the contributions our parks make to society. This oversight allows us to continue to underfund a valuable part of our natural capital and consequently damage our supporting environment, national heritage, monetary economy, and many of our diverse cultures. We explore a simple benefits transfer valuation of the United States’ national parks using National Land Cover Data from 2011 and ecosystem service values determined by Costanza et al. This produces an estimate suggesting the parks provide $98 billion/year in ecosystem service value. If the natural infrastructure ‘asset’ that is our national park system had a budget comparable to a piece of commercial real estate of this value, the annual budget of the National Park Service would be roughly an order of magnitude larger at something closer to $30 billion rather than $3 billion.


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