The Paradox of Preservation : Wilderness and Working Landscapes at Point Reyes National Seashore /

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"Point Reyes National Seashore has a long history as a working landscape, with dairy and beef ranching, fishing, and oyster farming; yet, since 1962 it has also been managed as a National Seashore. The Paradox of Preservation chronicles how national ideals about what a park 'ought to be�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watt, Laura Alice, 1966- (Author)
Other Authors: Lowenthal, David (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > National Park Service.
Natural resources conservation areas > Management.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Natural resources conservation areas > California > Point Reyes Peninsula > Management.
California > Point Reyes Peninsula.
California > Point Reyes National Seashore.
Point Reyes National Seashore (Calif.)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a management controversy at Point Reyes
  • Landscapes, preservation, and the National Park ideal
  • Making public parks from private lands
  • Acquisition and its alternatives
  • Parks as (potential) wilderness
  • Remaking the landscape
  • Reassertion of the park ideal
  • The politics of preservation
  • Conclusion : Point Reyes as a Leopoldian Park.

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