• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Title implies the USA has national parks in other countries 🤣

    Seriously, I’m surprised by the lack in the middle and Texas. NPs aren’t all trees. Plenty of our national parks in Australia are arid.

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      4 months ago

      In the USA parks are different than reserves or forests. National Parks has the stereotypical park ranger and guides, plus usually lodging and visitor centers and stuff. There are also national forests which probably have some trails and stuff but it’s mostly “here’s some land, good luck out there”. There are also wildlife preserves and stuff.

      Here’s a full map of USA federally owned lands:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_lands#/media/File%3AUS_federal_land.agencies.svg

      But ya, there still isn’t a huge amount of federal land in the east. I think the federal government got a lot stronger moving out west.

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        4 months ago

        It is a little bit different.

        National parks in Australia are essentially conservation areas that are protected. Maybe more like the national forests, parks and lakeshores combined.

        But you are right. What is going on in the east?

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      4 months ago

      its because a big chunk of the US that drives through the entire center area of the US, including northwest Texas, is the great plains. there’s basically grass for several thousand miles

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      4 months ago

      Well, Texas is located right next to Dthinna Dthinnawan National Park and Sundown National Park, as well as several State Forests.