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Main uses of areas in national parks:

• Tourism

• Recreation

• Farming

• Forestry

• Military training

• Mining and quarrying

• Water Supply

Limestone

Other uses: scenery, recreation activities in caves

Conflicts

Quarrying

• The minerals being quarried are non-renewable resources
• Most of the stone is transported by heavy lorries on roads often already busy with tourists and local traffic
• Quarries produce a great deal of noise and dust
• Quarries leave the landscape scarred.

Tourism

• Tourist traffic causes a great deal of congestion
• Demand for car parking exceeds amount of car parking available resulting in parking on grass verges.
• Footpaths are eroded
• Litter detracts from the appearance of the area and can harm livestock and wildlife
• Tourists sometimes wander over cultivated land, worry sheep and damage walls
• House prices increase, partly because of incomers, and partly because of demand for second homes
• Young people are forced to move away because of the increase in house prices

Uses of Upland Areas - Glacial Erosion

Tourism - excellent scenery attracts tourists

Recreation - including hill walking, skiing, etc.

Forestry - coniferous trees can tolerate the shorter growing season, poorer climate etc. and can be planted on steeper slopes that are useless for building

HEP - deep valleys with few people living in them can ideally be drowned and dammed for a power scheme.

Sporting estates

Water reservoirs