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What's an area near where you live which could be a National Park (or your country's equivalent) but hasn't been? (thelemmy.club)
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Also, if the area became a National Park, what compromises might need to be made in the park and how would it alter existing infrastructure?

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I am surrounded by state parks that could totally be national ones. All that would need changing is the management from state to fed. 🤷‍♂️

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    • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The black forest. A tiny part of it has recently been made a national park, but the vast majority still isn't. There's a lot of opposition to increasing its area, as it couldn't be used for logging and farming anymore.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    I guess, but then you get other benefits from tourism and being able to use the forest as a better sponge for rain. I feel like you could make the argument to push the area to increase tourism and higher end agricultural products.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I just moved, but before I lived in a town (locally) famous for its woods. Yet to my horror I discovered not only is it not protected as such, in recent years it has been cut down further for huge logistics depots pushing their screeching noises deep into the woods, and of course also a golf course.

    Then I see these maps from the middle ages in the town hall, where the woods reach straight to the nearest river a good 10 km away. All this wood chopped up over the course of some 800 years, first for the construction of the major port-city of Antwerp some 30 km downstream, and then later for local frivolity. So sad.

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