Who Is Our National Park Working For?; the Idea Was to Conserve While Also Developing. Yet, As Environment Correspondent Vicky Collins Finds, Locals Fear Business Rules at the Loch

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MUCH has changed since John Muir inspired the world's first national park.

When Yellowstone in California became a protected area in 1872, the founding principle was Muir's belief that wilderness and natural beauty had an intrinsic value that could not be measured in terms of money or progress, but which nevertheless should be cherished.

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Who Is Our National Park Working For?; the Idea Was to Conserve While Also Developing. Yet, As Environment Correspondent Vicky Collins Finds, Locals Fear Business Rules at the Loch

"Wildness is a necessity; and mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life," he said.

Although he spent most of his life in America, Muir was from Dunbar. It was ironic, therefore, that it was to be well over a century before Scotland followed America's lead and embraced Muir's vision.

In July 2002, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park came into being. It was the result of one of the first pie...

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