Monday, February 22, 2010

Blog #12 Abbey

I have been fortunate enough to visit many of the National Parks that Abbey mentions in this rant of his and honestly, I completely agree with him. I remember going to Yellowstone and noticing how beaten down the paths were just from foot traffic. Or how you would drive along the highway and suddenly it would stand still because everyone and their mother is gawking at the mountain goat a little off the road ahead. I think his plan is brilliant. I was sad to realize that this was written in 1968 and (to my knowledge) nothing of that nature has been done with the parks. I will say that in parks like Denali in Alaska there is definitely limited car traffic seeing as you have to take a bus into the park. I thought this was a really good idea and kind of an intermediate step. I do like his idea of riding bicycles much better though. I am terribly interested to see how this article impacted the park service at the time. Obviously it didn’t because he’s told us that it didn’t, but maybe it has impacted the park service today. I also really enjoyed his dry sense of humor. He has a way of writing that really draws you in and makes you feel comfortable. He sounds very honest. I think this is my favorite piece of work we’ve read so far.

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