The site comprises six earthen mounds. During the fall and winter all you can see are houses. And so many schools have been built around the site.
More schools means more traffic and more people.
Sprawl and lack of federal funding are the chief threats to the 10.8 million acres of the United States that contain 3,266 state parks, according to a report released Thursday by the National Park Trust. The National Park Trust did not rank the states, but Florida's director of recreation and parks, Fran Mainella, reported that 25,000 acres hang in the balance in the state. The parks are in imminent danger of being lost to development and residential sprawl wherever they happen to be. And these threats feed on one another, the report notes. Every state in the union could give an example of what they need to acquire to protect the integrity of a site.