Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists. 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.
Read the full report on the National Park Trust web site 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 most endangered state is Florida, where about 25,000 acres hang in the balance. 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.