2 deaths at Grand Canyon highlight struggle for park resources, experts say

Members of the media and the Hualapai tribe take a preview walk on the Skywalk, which extends 70 feet from the western Grand Canyon's rim more than 4,000 feet above the Colorado River on the Hualapai Reservation, at Grand Canyon, Arizona, on March 20, 2007.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

“I know that the parks are trying to do everything they can, the question is how much can they actually do with limited resources,” Phil Francis, the head of the Coalition to Protect Americas National Parks, said.There were more than 318 million recreational visits to national parks in 2018, according to the National Park Service. While that was down 3.8 percent from the 330 million the year before, it was still the third highest year for visits behind 2016 and 2017.

The National Park Service did not immediately respond to request for comment on the number of deaths in national parks per year.Francis said it was very important for visitors to plan ahead and learn as much as possible about the parks, including the best times of year to visit and weather patterns like extreme heat or cold.

“It’s like a cognitive disconnect between danger as an opportunity for self-expression or danger as actual danger and that’s more and more common,” he said.

'EXPERTS'? Laughable. STUPID has CONSEQUENCES. WHEN do people take SOLE RESPONSIBILITY for THEIR OWN actions? Or do THEY need one-on one baby-sitting EVERY minute?

Trump doesn't care about natural beauty. He hates dogs and they hate him. Polluting the air, killing endangered animals, destroying the beauty of oceans, brown children go in cages, die or go missing. Is this still America?

Once went to Grand Canyon. Never once saw a Ranger. Nothing bad happened to me or any of my family. You can't save people from doing dangerous things.

Really money is the factor. Money will saves lives in the Grand Canyon?

personal responsibility has to have some place in the conversation about visitor safety...

Good lord people what the hell are you even doing close to the edge. We have been there, not a good place to go. Responsibility and some common sense please.

Give this story to Meltdown Maddow and see her turn it into a week long conspiracy involving Russia and secret meetings

need safety nets for Democrats 🤣🤣

Next story: drugs, sex traffickers, gang members, and murderers coming in thru southern border... No resources needed!🙄 FakeNews

The photo shown is not within the park.

Taking stupid selfies while hanging over a dangerous ledge...oh forget it.

Translation: How many resources are needed to protect foolish people from themselves ?

I didn’t know “Park Resources” was another name for common sense.

😂😂😂these people fell taking selfies from precipitously high places! Somehow it’s Trumps fault for supposedly cutting funding for staff to warn the increasing number of Park visitors how dumb that is? 😂😂😂

Sad

Put the damn phones away

Idiotic people who fall while trying to get the perfect picture has nothing to do with park resources.

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