The quietest national park lacks any staff trained in acoustic ecology

Evidence

Its unequaled acoustic environment has no special protection, no special management, and not a single person on staff specifically trained in acoustic ecology. It is clearly as vulnerable to the same administrative bungling that has destroyed the natural soundscapes of Grand Canyon and Hawaii Volcanoes National Parks. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 72

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the institutional blind spot — a resource valued by no one on the payroll, a management gap story.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 72
• XREF: connects to: Most national parks are not actively working on soundscape management plans — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 851