With foreboding, consider California's park funding troubles

摘要

PEOPLE BEGAN CREATING PARKS A VERY LONG TIME AGO. IN EUROPE, DEER PARKS WERE SET ASIDE EOR THE ARISTOCRACY TO USE FOR HUNTING. THESE EVENTUALLY BECAME PARKS CENTERED AROUND MANSIONS. LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS OR ARCHITECTS SUCH AS CAPABILITY BROWN PLAYED AROLE IN MAKING THESE PARKS PLACES WHERE AESTHETICS WAS IMPORTANT. DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. PARKS TOOK ON A NEW ROLE AS A PLACE OF REFUGE FROM SMOG AND SMOKE GENERATED IN LARGE CITIES.Our name is the Connecticut Forest & Park Association, so it is obvious that we have two big concerns: forests and parks. We worry about threats,and try to lessen their effects. The threats to forests are both natural (invasive insect pests such as the emerald ash borer and the Asian longhorned beede, invasive plants, climate change) and human-made (development, unregulated logging). The threatsto parks, on the other hand, are all human-made.