Wed., August 12, 2009 2:55pm (EDT)
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Cumberland Island: Sounds and Pictures
By Orlando Montoya
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Updated: 7 months ago

CUMBERLAND ISLAND, Ga. — Many people find national parks to be refuges of peace and quiet.

Photos courtesy Dan Shultz (http://www.danschultzphoto.com)
Increasingly, however, it's getting harder to find natural quiet in America's wild places.

On Georgia’s Cumberland Island, the National Park Service is planning to start motorized tours that some say amount to a threat to natural silence.

The tours would allow visitors to hop in a van for easy access to the island's most remote areas.

Hikers and other quiet-seeking adventurers have been trying to prevent the tours for many years.

Now, it's just a matter of time before they begin.


Click below to hear the story heard on GPB's
All Things Considered:

Click below to hear an interview with
Gordon
Hempton
, author of "One Square Inch of Silence: One
Man's Search for Natural Silence in a Noisy World."

Click below to hear an interview with Mitty Ferguson,
of Cumberland Island's Greyfield Inn, talk about the
historic sites located in the island's wilderness areas:


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Contributors: Dan Shultz provided photos. Emily Green produced the slideshow. Thanks to Andrew MacCartney and Carl Zornes at GPB web support.