Crowded: Population Pressures in San Francisco Bay Area National Park Service Properties

Author

Caroline R. Ebinger, Scripps CollegeFollow

Graduation Year

2016

Document Type

Open Access Senior Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts

Department

Environmental Analysis

Reader 1

Bowman Cutter

Reader 2

Sean Flynn

Reader 3

Char Miller

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© 2015 Caroline R Ebinger

Abstract

This paper hopes to analyze the intersection between diversity and numbers of visitors and landscape preservation in the National Park Service. Current scholarship addresses either diversity in the Park System or carrying capacity and human population pressures. However, both are critical issues facing the National Park Service in the 21^st century, and looking at the issues in isolation means missing a key interaction and potentially working to solve one problem that in turn amplifies another. Here, diversity of park-goers and preservation priorities will be addressed together, each as part of the other.

Pinnacles National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Muir Woods National Monument each face human population pressures, yet each park has unique issues that illuminate the larger struggles within in NPS to ensure its mission to preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations is still being met 100 years after conception.

Recommended Citation

Ebinger, Caroline R., "Crowded: Population Pressures in San Francisco Bay Area National Park Service Properties" (2016). Scripps Senior Theses. 753.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/753