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Show 188 later coverage more successfully brought environmental issues into the story, reporting throughout Utah's national park history was dominated by economics, not ecology. News of Zion and Bryce presented the parks as primarily a business venture, while later parks were debated as either an economic boon or bust. For example, The Salt lake Tribune promoted the economics of tourism in Zion by exaggerating the quality of the improved din roads and the ease of tourist travel to the Southern Utah park, "considered just on the outskirts of Salt Lake."559 By the time Canyonlands was being debated in the 1960s, boosterism had faded and news coverage presented a debate between the economics of tourism versus the economics of industry. The contentiousness reflected in the politics was also present in economic issues. Environmental journalism increasingly focused on these conflicts. The phrase "locking up the land" captured those anxieties, as well as the attention of reporters. 560 Although environmental concerns did not receive focused press attention, they were a part of the broader national park debate at the time. 561 Furthermore, sources advocating the environmental purposes of the national parks were available from before the establishment of Zion through the designation of Arehes. 562 However, despi1e their existence, with few exceptions, these sources were not reflected in the newspapers examined until the 1960s and ' 70s. One of the exceptions illustrated in news about the Zion designation came as early as 1919, when a Sierra Club representative spoke to the H'l Salt Lake Tribune, "Fight for Wonderland," November 23, 1919. '6(1 Frank Jensen, '·Parks, Monuments Pull S45 Million Into Utah," Salt lake Tribune, January 8, 1962, 17. u , Albright and Sch(.-nck, Crearing the National Park Service, 27 1. ~ 2 Runt.::, .Vationa/ Parks: The Ame rican t.Xperienn!, 110. |
