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Solar Power for Parks and People
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Solar Power for Parks and People
Wayside Description A photograph of a large solar array with the caption, “Close-up view of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area’s Grizzly Gulch Solar Farm.” There are two text blocks on the wayside. The top left block reads as follows. What do sunshine and water have in common at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area? Answer: both of these abundant natural resources get utilized to make renewable energy inside the park! Importantly, unlike coal, natural gas, and oil-fired power plants, solar power and hydropower create electricity without polluting our communal air and atmosphere.
Beginning with the Arab Oil Embargos of the 1970s, the federal government and specifically the National Park Service was mandated to serve as a role model in terms of energy conservation and clean energy. Whiskeytown National Recreation Area takes this mandate seriously. Solar panels power most of the streetlights in the park. Solar panels also power part of the Visitor Center (the building just to your right), the park’s wastewater treatment facilities and the maintenance building.
There is a green recycle logo next to the lower right text block. The text reads as follows.
Be Clean and Green in the Park! During your visit here at Whiskeytown, help us protect the environment... 1. If parked or at a construction stop, turn your vehicle off instead of idling the engine. This helps save you gasoline and also reduces carbon dioxide emissions. 2. Dispose of all litter in the brown, bear-proof trash cans and dispose of all aluminum cans and glass or plastic bottles in the recycling cans.
How else can you conserve energy whether in the park or at home?!
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Audible description of the wayside, "Solar Power for Parks and People" at the Visitor Center
Date Created
12/23/2021
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