Wilderness in national parks : playground or preserve /
"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 P...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2009. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Wilderness and the origins of National Parks
- Wilderness and the new agency
- Wilderness becomes an issue for the Park Service
- Preservation of the primeval in the Post-Mather Era
- More ferment and expansion
- From the war to Director Wirth
- The drive for a wilderness act
- A hesitant start at implementation
- Wilderness reviews reluctantly completed
- Wilderness in Alaska
- A new sort of National Park wilderness
- Park wilderness after the reviews
- The work continues
- Epilogue.