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video games, home movie rentals, going out to movies, Internet use, and rising fuel prices explained almost 98 percent of the decline

Since most national park visits are a vacation or an all day activity, the above reasons seem to be conveninent fodder to rail todays youth. I know that schools used to go on these kinds of trips and many no longer do for example, which has nothing to do with couch potatos

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Its not as if a kid can just up and go to a National Park. It usually requires a parent to drive them there. And if the parents aren't taking their kids to the park, well, isn't that the parents fault? Unless this guy is saying the parents are spending too much time playing video games and watching movies (which is entirely possible) I don't see how this study makes any sense.