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Landscape Dynamics of Saguaro National Park
Like many protected areas in the western United States, Saguaro National Park has experienced rapid urban growth outside of its boundaries. When the Park was first established as a National Monument in 1933, the nearby city of Tucson had fewer than 40,000 residents, and the city was more than 20 miles distant along poorly developed dirt roads. Today, Tucson has nearly 1 million residents, and a multitude of human pressures associated with this growth and development pose distinct challenges to Park natural resources. Roads carve up natural landscapes and impede connectivity for wildlife, urban and agricultural development further fragment and erode the remaining natural areas, and housing proximate to the Park enable residents and pets to transgress its boundaries (Figure 1). Hence, despite the best possible resource management practices being implemented inside the Park, external anthropogenic landscape stressors originating from such sources as population, housing, and roads require Park managers, planners, and interpreters to confront the tricky questions of how such landscape dynamics affect the status and trend of key defining Park resources.
Landscape Dynamics of Saguaro National Park
Like many protected areas in the western United States, Saguaro National Park has experienced rapid urban growth outside of its boundaries. When the Park was first established as a National Monument in 1933, the nearby city of Tucson had fewer than 40,000 residents, and the city was more than 20 miles distant along poorly developed dirt roads. Today, Tucson has nearly 1 million residents, and a multitude of human pressures associated with this growth and development pose distinct challenges to Park natural resources. Roads carve up natural landscapes and impede connectivity for wildlife, urban and agricultural development further fragment and erode the remaining natural areas, and housing proximate to the Park enable residents and pets to transgress its boundaries (Figure 1). Hence, despite the best possible resource management practices being implemented inside the Park, external anthropogenic landscape stressors originating from such sources as population, housing, and roads require Park managers, planners, and interpreters to confront the tricky questions of how such landscape dynamics affect the status and trend of key defining Park resources.
Landscape Dynamics of Saguaro National Park
W. B. Monahan (author) / D. E. Swann (author) / J. A. Hubbard (author)
2013
326 pages
Report
No indication
English
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