Top Issue in Our National Park System

Our national parks are very important because they ultimately protect and help maintain our nation's history as well as the wildlife living around the area. Unfortunately it is a part of nature, which means that it changes whether we want it to or not. The top ten issues that it fights today are: the uncategorized artifacts that have been found, but parks do not have anywhere to store or examine them;  the natural deterioration of historical monuments and buildings; the lack of space to protect wildlife; foreign invaders reeking havoc among the native species; pollution from factories, prospecting, and power plants; climate change; freshwater shortage; overused roads and trails; and the negative impacts of overcrowded visitors on the environment. Out of all of these confuddling issues, I think that pollution and money are the most critical when it comes to maintaining our parks. After reviewing National Geographic's article on national parks, pollution is a main factor within all of the issues. The overused roads and trails, the crumbling historical artifacts, climate change, contaminated water, all general pollution which comes from gas emissions, power plants, and etc. One of the unfortunate factors from this issue is that it is impossible to end pollution, many people need vehicles to get from location to location, countries and businesses need natural resources in order to thrive and the list goes on and on. In the article, it was implied and stated a few times that the maintenance backlog which is the parks $9.5 billion maintenance budget is not enough to split between all of our countries parks. As much as I love nature and care about preserving our historical culture, I don't think that there is much that can be done regarding money. $9.5 billion is a lot of money and just as it relates to what was mentioned in the article about prioritization, there are many other causes that need governmental funding's.