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Arizona, Management

Diversity Challenge: National Parks Explore Ways to Attract New Visitors

Lindsay Walker
March 15, 2016
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A tessellated collection of autumn leaves, meant to suggest the variety of people who attend diverse nonprofit museums.

March 9, 2016; NPR

Take a stroll through Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona, and you can delight in a wide array of animals and vegetation, including Sonoran scrub oak, desert agave and prickly pear cactus to name a few. However, if you pay close attention to your fellow park visitors, you’ll likely be hard-pressed to see the same degree of diversity in people hiking the trails. The park, like many others throughout the country, is facing a diversity challenge, one that is creating a divide between the services it provides and the community in which it resides.

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