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For O’Bannon-Hitt. that has had a direct impact cm her sales, O'Bannon-fiitt said she noticed that the traffic really started to drop after Wll, and that sales since 2901 have gone steadily downhill.
Both O'Bannon-Hitt and Beck- Herzog suggest that the decline is the result of generational preferences more than anything^ else. Young people just don't seem to ecgoy the outdoors as their parents may have when they were younger
Beck- Herrog pointed out that the drop in visitors to national parks is not limited to Shenandoah and that all the other parks are experiencing similar drops in the numbered'visitors.
However the changing economic situation may be having some positive impacts on the number of visitors as families look tor places that are closer to home and less expensive. This past October according to the SJNP Web site, visitors were significantly up over October of the previous year
However reading too much into statistics can be tricky, as Beck-Hersog points out, as this year October was considerably less rainy than last.
Martin Woodard, who
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