Author: Marcus ColePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Mapping Wilderness Perceptions in Mount Rainier National Park
Mount Ranier National Park (N.P.), Proposed Wilderness
Author: The National Park Wilderness
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Windshield Wilderness
Author: David LouterPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 029598984X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In his engaging book Windshield Wilderness, David Louter explores the relationship between automobiles and national parks, and how together they have shaped our ideas of wilderness. National parks, he argues, did not develop as places set aside from the modern world, but rather came to be known and appreciated through technological progress in the form of cars and roads, leaving an enduring legacy of knowing nature through machines. With a lively style and striking illustrations, Louter traces the history of Washington State’s national parks -- Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades -- to illustrate shifting ideas of wilderness as scenic, as roadless, and as ecological reserve. He reminds us that we cannot understand national parks without recognizing that cars have been central to how people experience and interpret their meaning, and especially how they perceive them as wild places. Windshield Wilderness explores what few histories of national parks address: what it means to view parks from the road and through a windshield. Building upon recent interpretations of wilderness as a cultural construct rather than as a pure state of nature, the story of autos in parks presents the preservation of wilderness as a dynamic and nuanced process.Windshield Wilderness illuminates the difficulty of separating human-modified landscapes from natural ones, encouraging us to recognize our connections with nature in national parks.
Guide to Programs of Geography in the United States and Canada
Author: Preservation of Natural and Wilderness Values in the National Parks
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Wilderness by Design
Author: Ethan CarrPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803263833
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.
Changes in the Motivations, Perceptions, and Behaviors of Recreation Users
Author: Troy Elizabeth HallPublisher:
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Category : Recreational surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
We describe how wilderness visitors perceive changes in wilderness use, impacts, and management. We examine how visitors have responded to change, both behaviorally and cognitively. The study was based on a sample of visitors to 19 Forest Service wildernesses in Oregon and Washington. Many respondents said the types of wilderness trips they take have changed since their earlier wilderness trips. Most perceived adverse change. Use has increased (particularly day use), resulting in crowding and a widespread sense that these places seem less like wilderness than they did in the past. Most of these visitors learned to cope with these adverse changes by either adjusting the way they think about these places or by adjusting their behavior. Cognitive coping, particularly rationalization, is very common. Most visitors do not consider changing conditions to be very problematic, probably because their coping mechanisms are successful. This explains lack of support for management actions that restrict access. Very few visitors cannot cope with crowded conditions. Displacement of visitors away from crowded places does not seem prevalent enough for concern about increased crowding and biophysical impact in places in wilderness that are currently lightly used or the validity of on-site visitor surveys.
Wilderness Above the Sound
Author: Arthur D MartinsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780762842247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
National Geographic Atlas of the National Parks
Author: Jonathan WatermanPublisher: National Geographic Society
ISBN: 142622057X
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Profiling 60 parks--from battlefields to national seashores--administered by the National Park Service, this edition also provides a brief glimpse at 29 additional parks, including the newly created Indiana Sand Dunes.and Dunes.