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A, by H. White Co.. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views. A, by Singley, B. Benjamin Lloyd. The Wawona Tree, Photo Credit. The Wawona Tree, ca. The Park Service in the s actively promoted automobile tourism.

Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite all saw roads and roadside attractions rise and prosper. A group of servicemen, Photo Credit. Our expectations of national parks have changed immensely during the past half century. When our national parks were young, cutting tunnels through sequoia trees was a way to popularize the parks and gain support for their protection.

In those early days, national parks usually were managed to protect individual features rather than to protect the integrity of the complete environment.

Today, we realize that our national parks represent some of the last primeval landscapes in America, and our goal in the parks is to allow nature to run its course with as little interference from humans as possible. Tunnel trees had their time and place in the early history of our national parks. But today sequoias which are standing healthy and whole are worth far more.

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