Places of quiet beauty: parks, preserves, and environmentalism
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1. Verfasser: Conard, Rebecca (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City University of Iowa Press ©1997
Schriftenreihe:American land and life series
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index
Foreword / Wayne Franklin -- Prologue -- Conservation Parks -- Pammel's Way -- Reshaping Park and Conservation Goals in the 1920s -- Toward a Resource Agency: The Twenty-five-Year Conservation Plan -- Seeking Balance -- The Center Does Not Hold -- The Lightning Rod Decades -- Epilogue -- Appendix: State Lands in Parks and Preserves, 1918-1996
Resource protection and public recreation policies have always been subject to the shifting winds of management philosophy governing both national and state parks. Somewhere in the balance, however, parks and preserves have endured as unique places of mind as well as matter. Places of Quiet Beauty allows us to see parks and preserves, forests and wildlife refuges & mdash;all those special places that the term & ldquo;park & rdquo; conjures up & mdash;as measures of our own commitment to caring for the environment. In this broad-ranging book, historian Rebecca Conard examines the complexity of
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 382 pages)
ISBN:0877455589
1587290391
9780877455585
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