Northern Cascades National Park
The purpose of this paper is to give you some background information
on Northern Cascades National Park and to talk about the management
techniques the park uses to preserve it. Northern Cascades National
Park became a national park on Oct 2, 1968, when Lyndon Johnson sighed
the North Cascades Act. Twenty years later congress designated 93% of
the park as a Stephen Mater Wilderness. When congress declares an area
as "wilderness," it provides extra protection against human impact.
Northern Cascades National Park is mostly used for backpackers and
mountain climbers, who have little impact on the park. There is one
gravel road open to the public that is in the park, but very few people
utilize it. Each year Northern Cascades National Park receives about
400,000 visitors for recreational purposes. Native Americans were
amongst the first to use this area. Four Indian tribes inhabited the
Cascades; the Upper Skagits, Sauk, Suiattle, and Swinomish who were......
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