Limiting number of tourists to help environment

[olin137]

I don't buy that it's only the tourists that have negative impacts on the environment. There's plenty of locals that don't show much respect for either how they treat the land or other people. As for too many newcomers changing the spirit of the area, for good or ill, that's the way things are. Part of living in an open society is the freedom to go live where you want. It definitely can create problems, whether in Hawaii, Montana, or elsewhere, but working to incorporate them is going to pay off more in the future than railing against them and letting them know they are outsiders - no surer way of increasing tension and assuring separate political agendas develop.