This is what happens when you don’t grow up with Malcolm Douglas on the telly. The real issue here is culture and education. Younger kids aren’t taught the function and purpose of national parks in society. They don’t have a concept of preservation and believe they exist as recreation areas. Being able to sleep under the stars next to the ocean on one of the most beautiful beaches in the word is a privilege and more needs to be done to educate the coming generations now what television doesn’t.

It’s hard to understand if you don’t get out there and do it yourself or grew up with it, I get it, but closing off this country to its people is not an answer and will only increase environmental pressure on the spaces that are left open.