美国国家公园地质旅游特色及借鉴意义

自1872 年美国建立第一个国家公园以来, 全世界国家公园数已达2600个, 对于资源环境、生态系统、地质景观的保护起着十分重要的作用, 特别是美国,在保护地质景观的同时, 开展地质旅游, 效果明显。与之比较, 我国的地质公园建设还存在着许多不足。本文主要说明了美国国家公园的主要地质旅游特色, 比较了两国在地质旅游认识、管理方面存在的差异, 并总结了一些值得我们借鉴学习的经验。 

THE PROPERTIES OF NATIONAL PARK OF AMERICA AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE USED FOR REFERENCE

There have been 2600 national parks in the world since America built the first one in 1872. It is very important for protecting resources, environment, ecology and geological scene. The development of geologic tourism and the protection of geologic environment were carried out at the same time, which had got obvious effect, especially in America. Compared with America, China has lots of problems in protecting geological environment. In this paper, the authors demonstrate some major properties of geologic tourism in American national park, and compare the ideas and managing methods in the national park between China and America, furthermore, sum up some American experiences of managing geological scene.