The Leopold Report was the first concrete plan for managing park visitors and ecosystems under unified principles. Park management issues and controversies addressed in this report included the difficulties of managing elk populations in Yellowstone National Park and how "overprotection from natural ground fires" in California's Sequoia National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, and Yosemite National Park had begun to threaten groves of Giant Sequoia with catastrophic wildfires. The report also established a historical baseline that read, "The goal of managing the national parks and monuments should be to preserve, or where necessary to recreate, the ecologic scene as viewed by the first European visitors." This baseline would guide ecological restoration in national parks until a climate change adaptation policy, "Resist-Adapt-Direct", was established in 2021.
The Leopold Report was the first concrete plan for managing park visitors and ecosystems under unified principles Park management issues and controversies addressed in this report included the difficulties of managing elk populations in Yellowstone National Park and how "overprotection from natural ground fires" in California's Sequoia National Park Kings Canyon National Park and Yosemite National Park had begun to threaten groves of Giant Sequoia with catastrophic wildfires The report also established a historical baseline that read "The goal of managing the national parks and monuments should be to preserve or where necessary to recreate the ecologic scene as viewed by the first European visitors" This baseline would guide ecological restoration in national parks until a climate change adaptation policy "Resist-Adapt-Direct" was established in 2021