But national park designation has not solved all the problems.

Testing for correspondence between coral reef invertebrate diversity and marine park designation on the Masoala Peninsula of eastern Madagascar.

Since the new park designation, the monthly visitor count has more than doubled.

The park is part of a larger park designation called the Connecticut River Greenway State Park.

More contentious than the park designation was the name itself.

Advocates for park designation say the project would cost very little money, in part because some of the historic buildings are already in public hands.

This was the first time such a recommendation on national park designation had not been accepted.

In 1964 a ruggedly beautiful area located mostly in western San Juan County received national park designation.

The next national park designation within the county involved greater controversy and complications.

Since the new park designation, the monthly visitor head count has more than doubled, with about 12,800 arrivals in March.