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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Regional Survey: Public recreation
Author: Regional Survey of New York and Its Environs ...
Author: Public Recreation
Author: Lee Franklin HanmerPublisher:
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
America's National Park System
Author: Lary M. DilsaverPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442256842
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America's national park system. The extensive collection of documents illustrates the system's creation, development, and management. The documents include laws that established and shaped the system; policy statements on park management; Park Service self-evaluations; and outside studies by a range of scientists, conservation organizations, private groups, and businesses. A new appendix includes summaries of pivotal court cases that have further interpreted the Park Service mission.
Preliminary Report of the Assembly Interim Committee on Municipal and County Government Covering Fringe Area Problems in the Counties of Sacramento, Napa, Kern and Alameda
Author: California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Municipal and County GovernmentPublisher:
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Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove
Author: Frederick Law OlmstedPublisher: Yosemite Conservancy
ISBN: 9780939666690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan visited Yosemite National Park, they both called out Fredrick Law Olmsted as a major influence and inspiration for their documentary film, The National Parks: America's Best Idea. To celebrate Mr. Olmsted and his contributions to our National Parks, the Yosemite Conservancy, in partnership with Heyday Books, has reprinted "Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report, 1865" with a new foreword by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. This seminal book is a must read for anyone interested in the National Parks and our public lands. The first eloquent expression of the need for conservation in 1865 is found in this remarkable and prescient report by Frederick Law Olmsted. No statement since has been so cogent or powerful. Pristine natural landscapes, Olmsted observed, provide people with "refreshing rest and re-invigoration." They are good - perhaps essential - for the soul. Which is why, he noted, that from time immemorial they have most often become the exclusive domain of any society's most privileged classes, "a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few, very rich people." Olmsted believed a great democracy had a greater obligation: "to provide means of protection for all its citizens in the pursuit of happiness." That meant, he argued, that "the establishment by government of great public grounds for the free enjoyment of the people . . . is thus justified and enforced as a political duty." Olmsted gave additional reasons for creating public parks, including that they are undeniably good for the local, state, and national economy because of the tourist business they engender. His report also included practical advice about building roads and shelters, as well as instituting regulations to zealously protect the "dignity of the scenery." All of his points are as pertinent today as they were when he first read them to his fellow Yosemite commissioners nearly 150 years ago. But in deliberately borrowing from our nation's founding document, which proclaims that the "pursuit of happiness" is among the inalienable rights of every human being, and in attaching that notion to why Yosemite (or any other future park) should not be allowed to become "a rich man's park," Olmsted infused the national park idea with its most enduring principle."
Interim Report of the Commissioners on Certain Parts of Primary Education
Author: New South Wales. Commission on primary, secondary, technical, and other branches of educationPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Pamphlets Rec
Author: Russell Sage Foundation. Dept. of RecreationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Appendix and Preliminary report: Letter of inquiry to executive departments; Replies of departments; Surplus copies of departmental editions of government publications; Preliminary report of Printing investigation commission (59th Cong., 1st sess. Senate rpt. 2153); Regulations of Joint committee on printing; Index
Author: United States. Printing Investigation CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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