Preserving nature in the national parks : a history : with a new preface and epilogue /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sellars, Richard West, 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2009]
Edición:2009 edition.
Temas:
United States. > National Park Service > History.
United States. > National Park Service
National parks and reserves > United States > History.
National parks and reserves > United States > Management > History.
Nature conservation > United States > History.
Natural resources > United States > Management > History.
Parcs nationaux > États-Unis > Histoire.
Parcs nationaux > États-Unis > Gestion > Histoire.
Nature > Conservation > États-Unis > Histoire.
SCIENCE > General.
National parks and reserves
National parks and reserves > Management
Natural resources > Management
Nature conservation
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the 2009 edition
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Creating tradition : the roots of national park management
  • Growth of the National Park concept
  • Resorts, spas, and early National Parks
  • The management of nature
  • 2. Codifying tradition : the National Park Service Act of 1916
  • Advocates and opponents
  • The statement of purpose
  • A utilitarian act
  • 3. Perpetuating tradition : the National Parks under Stephen T. Mather, 1916-1929
  • Building park service leadership
  • A formal policy and a bureaucratic rivalry
  • Appropriate and inappropriate park development
  • Deletions and additions of park lands
  • Nature management
  • The predator problem
  • Popular wildlife species
  • Forest management
  • Ecological concerns and Mather's leadership
  • Utilitarian aesthetics and National Park management
  • 4. The rise and decline of ecological attitudes, 1929-1940
  • Park Service leadership and the wildlife biologists
  • Conflict over park development
  • Biological research
  • Rangelands and the grazing species
  • Predators
  • Fish
  • Forests
  • Expanding Park Service programs
  • New Deal impacts on the Park Service
  • Declining influence of the wildlife biologists
  • 5. The war and postwar years, 1940-1963
  • Wartime and postwar pressures
  • Natural resource issues under Drury and Wirth
  • The status of wildlife biology
  • The road to Mission 66
  • Mission 66
  • Changes in wilderness and recreation programs
  • The public hunting crisis and a new look at National Parks
  • 6. Science and the struggle for bureaucratic power : the Leopold era, 1963-1981
  • Mission 66 and Parkscape U.S.A.
  • The Leopold and National Academy reports
  • The pursuit of bureaucratic power
  • Environmental legislation and change
  • Policies : new and old
  • Natural regulation and elk
  • Grizzly bears
  • Forest
  • Exotic species
  • The State of the Parks reports
  • 7. A house divided : the National Park Service and environmental leadership
  • Building an environmental record
  • The Vail Agenda
  • National Park Service culture and recreational tourism.

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