How Should We Manage China’s National Parks? A Comparative Analysis between National Parks in China and the US

Dead men walking: search and rescue in US National Parks.

OBJECTIVE To identify search and rescue (SAR) trends in US National Park Service (NPS) units. METHODS A retrospective review of the US National Park Service Annual Search and Rescue Reports from 1992 to 2007 and the SAR statistics for all NPS units in 2005. RESULTS From 1992 to 2007 there were 78,488 individuals involved in 65,439 SAR incidents. These incidents ended with 2659 fatalities, 2...

Monitoring the condition of natural resources in US national parks.

The National Park Service has developed a long-term ecological monitoring program for 32 ecoregional networks containing more than 270 parks with significant natural resources. The monitoring program assists park managers in developing a broad-based understanding of the status and trends of park resources as a basis for making decisions and working with other agencies and the public for the lon...

How does poaching affect the size of national parks?

A variety of human activities have detrimental impacts on populations of species the park is designed to protect. These impacts range from direct hunting for trophy or subsistence needs, through vehicular collisions, to the direct loss of habitat due to forestry and agricultural activity. These impacts reduce the effective size of the parks and require changes in management policy that deal bot...

Vegetation Modeling, Analysis and Visualization in U.s. National Parks

Researchers at the Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS) at The University of Georgia have worked with the U.S. Department of Interior National Park Service (NPS) over the past decade to create detailed vegetation databases for several National Parks and Historic Sites in the southeastern United States. The sizes of the parks under investigation vary from Everglades National Park...

Exploitation of freshwater eels in National Parks