Indeed, not all is well in this prime symbol of our nations ecological foresight. For now, only one road has penetrated into the region, the embodiment of a superlative balancing act between access and preservation. Many feel this access is not enough, and advocates desiring unchecked development of this untrammeled jewel are many - and economically strong. Their pressure is incessant. Even more so now given the recent change of power in our land.
Information concerning park planning issues is readily available here .
Whatever evaluation we finally make of a stretch of land, however, no matter how profound or accurate, we will find it inadequate. The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. To try to sense the range and variety of its expression - its weather and colors and animals. To intend from the beginning to preserve some of the mystery within it as a kind of wisdom to be experienced, not questioned. And to be alert for its openings, for that moment when something sacred reveals itself within the mundane, and you know the land knows you are there.