Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Departmental OperationsPublisher:
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Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Review of National Wilderness Preservation System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Departmental OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Review of National Wilderness Preservation System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Departmental OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Wilderness in National Parks
Author: John C. MilesPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295990392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
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.
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.
Wilderness Management
Author: John C. HendeePublisher:
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Category : Wilderness areas
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public LandsPublisher:
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Category : Land titles
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Wilderness Forever
Author: Mark W. T. HarveyPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295985329
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser
Author: Mark W. T. HarveyPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295805153
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Howard Zahniser (1906–1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. The act, which created the National Wilderness Preservation System, was the culmination of Zahniser’s years of tenacious lobbying and his work with conservationists across the nation. In 1964, fifty-four wilderness areas in thirteen states were part of the system; today the number has grown to 757 areas, protecting more than a hundred million acres in forty-four states and Puerto Rico. Zahniser’s passion for wild places and his arguments for their preservation were communicated through radio addresses, magazine articles, speeches, and congressional testimony. An eloquent and often poetic writer, he seized every opportunity to make the case for the value of wilderness to people, communities, and the nation. Despite his unquestioned importance and the power of his prose, the best of Zahniser's wilderness writings have never before been gathered in a single volume. This indispensable collection makes available in one place essays and other writings that played a vital role in persuading Congress and the American people that wilderness in the United States deserved permanent protection.
Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National ParksPublisher:
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A Sand County Almanac
Author: Aldo LeopoldPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197500269
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
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.