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ISBN-13: | 9780295988740 |
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Publisher: | University of Washington Press |
Publication date: | 08/12/2009 |
Pages: | 344 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Wilderness and the Origins of National Parks2. Wilderness and the New Agency3. Wilderness Becomes an Issue for the Park Service4. Preservation of the Primeval in the Post-Mather Era5. More Ferment and Expansion6. From the War to Director Wirth7. The Drive for a Wilderness Act8. A Hesitant Start at Implementation9. Wilderness Reviews Reluctantly Completed10. Wilderness in Alaska11. A New Sort of National Park Wilderness12. Park Wilderness after the Reviews13. The Work ContinuesEpilogueNotesSourcesIndexWhat People are Saying About This
This is a remarkable book that fills an important niche in the literature on US national parks and the National Park Service (NPS). Miles effectively uses primary sources to document the conflict between promotion of the national parks and the erosion of wilderness due to increasing access and use of the parks as America became an auto culture. Highly recommended.
Prior histories of wilderness policy have focused primarily on the National Forest Service, and this discussion of the NPS is needed.
This is a great case study for those managing or studying how to balance political and resource needs when managing public lands.
Wilderness in National Parks is an outstanding addition to the wilderness literature, an impeccably researched, well-argued work that provides important new perspectives on how the wilderness concept was conceived and incorporated by American national park administrators and bureaucrats in the 20th century.
University of Washington Press
This is a remarkable book that fills an important niche in the literature on US national parks and the National Park Service (NPS). Miles effectively uses primary sources to document the conflict between promotion of the national parks and the erosion of wilderness due to increasing access and use of the parks as America became an auto culture. Highly recommended.
University of Washington Press
This is a great case study for those managing or studying how to balance political and resource needs when managing public lands.
University of Washington Press
Wilderness in National Parks is an extensively researched chronological narrative of specific events driving the internal debate within the National Park Service about whether and how to treat the concept of wilderness in managing the national parks. I highly recommend the book.
"Wilderness in National Parks is an outstanding addition to the wilderness literature, an impeccably researched, well-argued work that provides important new perspectives on how the wilderness concept was conceived and incorporated by American national park administrators and bureaucrats in the 20th century."
This is a remarkable book that fills an important niche in the literature on US national parks and the National Park Service (NPS). Miles effectively uses primary sources to document the conflict between promotion of the national parks and the erosion of wilderness due to increasing access and use of the parks as America became an auto culture. Highly recommended.
"Wilderness in National Parks is timely, original, ambitious, and comprehensive. It's a big book on a big subject."
John Miles's Wilderness in National Parks is a wellconceived treatment of the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and wilderness and all of its proponents. He hits the right themes and nicely negotiates the twists and turns of policy. This is a solid addition to the bookshelf of national park histories.