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number of National Parks and designated Wilderness Areas, and having been a frequent visitor to both, my own personal observation was that very often the National Parks were nothing more than extensions of the bumper to bumper, plastic civilizations of the larger cities. Magnificent Yosemite was complete with a camper town, motel and its own supermarket. As a “scenic resource” for the tourist trade, I’m sure this park is unsurpassed. Perhaps Madison could send its County Planning Commissioner there for a short course on how to enhance tourism.
The wilderness experience on the other hand was a singular opportunity to find what I feel many of those people in their campers came looking for and sadly never found. It was a chance to turn one’s back on the trappings of civilization and gain a new perspective about what’s really important in oneself. It was a spiritual odyssey that cannot be described but only lived. My final comment to restate what Mr. Wright had said previously, is that we must save our wild unspoiled lands. Preserving 80,000 acres of land is very little compared to what’s buried under super-highways, supermarkets and super-suburbia every year. Will our progeny look upon us with scorn as the generation that thought more of the tourist trade than the preservation of their natural birthright?
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