| New parks and reserves are often created because more tourists will be attracted to areas of natural forests. Conversely, the increased number of tourists often end up destroying the very places they come to visit. Tourist vehicles can erode forest slopes, trees are cut down to provide places to build tourist lodges, and products from the forests are often taken by tourists as souvenirs. Too many people in any area almost always damage the forest, but compared to most alternative ways to use these areas, tourism is relatively benign. |
Campgrounds can become so popular that they begin to destroy themselves. All the nearby wood and fallen branches that
would have contributed nutrients to the soil is taken for campfires, and the air becomes thick with smoke. By now, most campgrounds have
rules about sizes of fires. Photo by Maya Walters.
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