Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected Areas/Status
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The layout of protected area articles:
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[edit] Protected area series
- Level one:
- Protected area -stub
- International protected areas -nonexistent
- Level two
- Level 3
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- Protected areas of New South Wales (Australia), all other Australian states
- Protected areas of California -list only
- that's all
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- Level 4
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- Numerous national park articles -Does any country have a complete set of articles? How many follow format?
- Numerous state park articles - Do any follow format for level 4?
- Some National forest articles, wildlife refuge articles, etc. - Do any follow format?
- Some lower level park articles - Do any follow format for Level 4?
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[edit] List articles
- List of national parks
- List of national parks of England and Wales redirects to article on park system with list as do Scotland and Northern Ireland lists
- List of Spanish national parks -most other countries articles in form of List of national parks of Belarus
- Australia is represented on the list by the Protected areas article which apparently doesn't have all National parks on one page
- List of U.S. national parks
- List of National Monuments of the United States
- List of U.S. wilderness areas -97% complete
- List of miscellaneous U.S. public areas -only three items on list
- List of U.S. National Forests
- List of National Wildlife Refuges
- List of National Wild and Scenic Rivers
- List of U.S. National Parks Service parks
- List of U.S. government designations for places
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- List of state parks -only U.S. and Mexico
- List of New York state parks, etc. -incomplete, no articles on state park systems but some lists provide basic details
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- City level lists
- List of New York City parks - not complete
- Royal Parks of London
- List of urban public parks and gardens of Hong Kong
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[edit] Descriptive articles
- Protected area
- Park
- National park
- National Forest -refers to U.S. only
- State park - refers to U.S. and Mexico only
- Provincial park - in Canada (stub)
- Regional park
- United States National Monument
- National Memorial - a U.S.-centric article
- Wilderness
- Wilderness area
- Special Protection Area
- NATURA 2000
- Special Area of Conservation
- Site of Special Scientific Interest
- Global 200
- World Heritage Site
- Country park -British only, doesn't mention Hong Kong
[edit] Managing organization articles
- United States Forest Service
- National Park Service --stub refers to U.S. one only
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Bureau of Land Management - U.S.
- Parks Canada -stub
- English Nature
- English Heritage
- Scottish Natural Heritage
- Countryside Council for Wales
- Environment and Heritage Service
See also Conservation series articles -looks like a non-active project (List of conservation topics)
- Conservation in Australia, a few others
[edit] U.S. National Parks
I am working my way through the 58 U.S. National Parks articles. Please feel free to help. (Should probably standardize link text) Rmhermen 17:43, Oct 16, 2004 (UTC)
Using a criteria of designation of 75% or more of the park as wilderness, I have noted the parks which should have the brown background on the summary box instead of green (these are IUCN level Ib).
[edit] Minimally complete
(at least one representative picture, infobox box, links to official web site, order of magnitude)
- Acadia National Park needs discussion on flora and fauna
- Arches National Park completed, numerous relined links however
- Badlands National Park
- Big Bend National Park
- Biscayne National Park could use expansion
- Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park could use expansion
- Bryce Canyon National Park Featured article
- Canyonlands National Park excellent
- Carlsbad Caverns National Park needs expansion
- Capitol Reef National Park excellent
- Channel Islands National Park not bad, maybe some more on wildlife
- Congaree National Park could use expansion
- Crater Lake National Park needs cleanup and expansion
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park could use expansion
- Death Valley National Park Featured article
- Denali National Park and Preserve could use expansion
- Dry Tortugas National Park okay but brief
- Everglades National Park, (wilderness) needs expansion
- Gates Of The Arctic National Park and Preserve needs expansion
- Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve could use more detail
- Glacier National Park Featured article
- Grand Canyon National Park very brief text, needs major expansion
- Grand Teton National Park
- Great Basin National Park needs more detail
- Great Sand Dunes National Park, (wilderness)
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park
- Haleakala National Park, (wilderness)
- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park needs expansion
- Hot Springs National Park
- Isle Royale National Park, (wilderness)
- Joshua Tree National Park
- Katmai National Park and Preserve (wilderness)
- Kenai Fjords National Park
- Kings Canyon National Park (wilderness)
- Kobuk Valley National Park needs expansion
- Lake Clark National Park and Preserve (wilderness) needs expansion
- Lassen Volcanic National Park (wilderness)
- Mammoth Cave National Park
- Manzanar National Historic Site is an FA candidate
- Mesa Verde National Park
- Mount Rainier National Park, (wilderness) needs more detail
- National Park of American Samoa needs more detail
- North Cascades National Park needs expansion
- Olympic National Park (wilderness)
- Petrified Forest National Park
- Redwood National and State Parks Featured article
- Rocky Mountain National Park needs expansion
- Saguaro National Park expand
- Sequoia National Park (wilderness) need more detail and image of sequoia tree
- Shenandoah National Park
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park
- Virgin Islands National Park
- Voyageurs National Park needs expansion
- Wind Cave National Park
- Wrangell - St Elias National Park and Preserve (wilderness) needs expansion
- Yellowstone National Park Featured article
- Yosemite National Park (wilderness)
- Zion National Park Featured article
[edit] U.S. National Forests
For complete listing see List of U.S. National Forests. Still some redlined articles, but becoming more completed. Article quality ranges from single sentence stubs to thoroughly detailed discussions. 2 forests have no articles - as of 14 February 2007
[edit] U.S. Wilderness areas
Though some work has been completed, there are hundreds of redlined links to vacant artilces in need of development See: List of U.S. Wilderness Areas. Approximately 40 articles are detailed and utilize images and the infobox appropriate for wilderness articles.
- Note that the list article may not be complete. See Talk:List of U.S. Wilderness Areas for discussion of "missing" areas.
[edit] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service areas
Over 250 written articles yet still hundreds of redlined links to vacant articles. See: List of National Wildlife Refuges. Several articles now utilize the infobox but we will need to go back to older articles and add it in to each one.
[edit] New Zealand National Parks
[edit] Has infobox
all parks now have infobox
- Tongariro National Park
- Paparoa National Park
- Te Urewera National Park
- Egmont National Park
- Whanganui National Park
- Kahurangi National Park
- Abel Tasman National Park
- Nelson Lakes National Park
- Arthurs Pass National Park
- Westland National Park
- Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park
- Mount Aspiring National Park
- Fiordland National Park
- Rakiura National Park
[edit] South Africa Conservation Areas and Parks
See List of conservation areas of South Africa Initial evaluation (April 3, 2006): 95 parks on list - 21 have at least a stub article, only 6 have an infobox. About 8 are stubs.
