Wilderness in national parks : playground or preserve / John C. Miles.

By:

Miles, John C, 1944-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 334 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780295990392
0295990392

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wilderness in national parksDDC classification:

333.78/2160973 22

LOC classification:

QH76

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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.

Summary: "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 Preservation System, John C. Miles finds the National Park Service still struggling to deal with an idea that lies at the core of its mission and yet complicates that mission, nearly one hundred years into its existence.Summary: The National Park Service's ambivalence about wilderness is traced from its beginning to turn of the twenty-first century. The service is charged with managing more wilderness acreage than any government agency in the world and, in its early years, frequently favored development over preservation. The public has perceived national parks as permanently protected wilderness resources, but in reality this public confidence rests on shaky ground.Summary: Miles shows how changing conceptions of wilderness affected park management over the years, with a focus on the tension between the goals of providing recreational spaces for the American people and leaving lands pristine and undeveloped for future generations."--Pub. desc.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-322) and index.

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"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 Preservation System, John C. Miles finds the National Park Service still struggling to deal with an idea that lies at the core of its mission and yet complicates that mission, nearly one hundred years into its existence.

The National Park Service's ambivalence about wilderness is traced from its beginning to turn of the twenty-first century. The service is charged with managing more wilderness acreage than any government agency in the world and, in its early years, frequently favored development over preservation. The public has perceived national parks as permanently protected wilderness resources, but in reality this public confidence rests on shaky ground.

Miles shows how changing conceptions of wilderness affected park management over the years, with a focus on the tension between the goals of providing recreational spaces for the American people and leaving lands pristine and undeveloped for future generations."--Pub. desc.

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