A Vision for Wilderness in the National Parks
Author | : Roger Contor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : National parks and reserves |
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Author | : Roger Contor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : National parks and reserves |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick Kupper |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782383743 |
The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
Author | : United States. National Park Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : National parks and reserves |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John C. Miles |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295990392 |
Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation. By examining the overlapping and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the park service and the national wilderness preservation system, John C. Miles finds the National Park Service still struggling to deal with an idea that lies at the core of its mission and yet complicates that mission, nearly one hundred years into its existence. The National Park Service's ambivalence about wilderness is traced from its beginning to the turn of the twenty-first century. The Service is charged with managing more wilderness acreage than any government agency in the world and, in its early years, frequently favored development over preservation. The public has perceived national parks as permanently protected wilderness resources, but in reality this public confidence rests on shaky ground. Miles shows how changing conceptions of wilderness affected park management over the years, with a focus on the tension between the goals of providing recreational spaces for the American people and leaving lands pristine and undeveloped for future generations.
Author | : Ethan Carr |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780803263833 |
Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.
Author | : Mark David Spence |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1999-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199880689 |
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal. The first study to place national park history within the context of the early reservation era, it details the ways that national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.
Author | : Jon Roush |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : National parks and reserves |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stan Stevens |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2014-09-18 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0816530912 |
""This passionate, well-researched book makes a compelling case for a paradigm shift in conservation practice. It explores new policies and practices, which offer alternatives to exclusionary, uninhabited national parks and wilderness areas and make possible new kinds of protected areas that recognize Indigenous peoples' rights and benefit from their knowledge and conservation contributions"--Provided by publisher"--
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Aldo Leopold |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0197500269 |
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.