MARK S. BACON
马克·S·贝肯(MARK S. BACON)
Reno, Nev.
美国内华达州里诺
To the Editor:
致编辑:
Footsteps do affect fragile ecosystems. But as custodians of open space eagerly pursue tourism, they pursue development.
户外活动确实会影响脆弱的生态系统。户外空间的管理人渴望发展旅游业,其实是在追求经济发展。
In our mid-Hudson town of New Paltz, the Mohonk Preserve, in a longstanding partnership with the for-profit Mohonk Mountain House resort, plans 100-plus car parking, visitor center, boardwalk, bulldozed trails, toilet sheds and outdoor lighting, encouraging visitors from far and near to leap into their fossil-fueled vehicles to swarm in ever greater numbers into the unspoiled.
在我们哈德逊河中部城市新帕尔茨,莫康克保护区(Mohonk Preserve)与营利性的莫康克山豪斯酒店(Mohonk Mountain House)有着长期合作关系,他们规划了100多个停车位和游客中心、浮桥、旅游路线、卫生间棚、户外照明,鼓励远近的游客一跃而上跳到他们的化石燃料供能车里,以前所未有的数量涌向未被破坏的土地。
Recreation is a profitable and competitive industry, and green access is a resource that can be exploited as ruthlessly as any other, to the detriment of both wild and human habitat. It affects not only the trampled green space but also its buffer, where someone, till now, could stop to help a tortoise cross the highway without setting off half a mile of honking cars.
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