Center for Park Research Reports

Annual Update
May 2011

The Center for Park Research summarizes its completed 2010 projects and includes feedback the Center has received from National Park Service staff, as well as examples of how NPCA uses the Center’s publications in its work, in the 2011 Annual Update.

The State of America's National Parks
June 2011

This report provides the most comprehensive overview ever conducted on resource conditions in America’s national parks. A decade in the making, The State of America’s National Parks analyzes 80 national parks across the country to gauge how America’s most precious places are faring in the face of pollution, invasive species, climate change, energy development, adjacent land development, and chronic funding shortfalls.

National Parks of the Colorado River Basin: Water Management, Resource Threats, and Economics
April 2011

This report by NPCA’s Center for Park Research identifies the effects that large dams have on natural and cultural resources in Dinosaur National Monument, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, and Grand Canyon National Park. The report also considers the economic value of national parks as well as the economic value of hydropower generated by large dams in the Colorado River Basin.

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