Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Directory - National Park Service
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
National Park Service Uniforms
Author: R. Bryce WorkmanParks Directory of the United States, 8th Ed
Author: Pearline JaikumarPublisher:
ISBN: 9781954866249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A comprehensive reference source to over 5,500 national and state parks and other designated recreational, scenic, and historic areas in the United States and Canada. The directory includes parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and recreation areas administered by the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Highway Administration, state and municipal park agencies, and Parks Canada.
The National Park Service
Author: William EverhartPublisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Forts of Old San Juan
Author: Publisher: National Park Service
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Tells the story of the evolution of the defenses of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the role they played in helping to safeguard Spanish possessions in the Caribbean from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Fort Smith National Historic Site, Arkansas
Author: C. Craig FrazierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Smith (Ark.)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Directory of National Park Service Historians
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
National Park Service
Author: Horace Marden AlbrightPublisher: Kc Publications
ISBN: 9780887140105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Traces the development of the National Park Service and describes National Parks and Historic Monuments
Wilderness in National Parks
Author: John C. MilesPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295990392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
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 the 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.
Creating the National Park Service
Author: Horace M. AlbrightPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806131559
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Two men played a crucial role in the creation and early history of the National Park Service: Stephen T. Mather, a public relations genius of sweeping vision, and Horace M. Albright, an able lawyer and administrator who helped transform that vision into reality. In Creating the National Park Service, Albright and his daughter, Marian Albright Schenck, reveal the previously untold story of the critical "missing years" in the history of the service. During this period, 1917 and 1918, Mather's problems with manic depression were kept hidden from public view, and Albright, his able and devoted assistant, served as acting director and assumed Mather's responsibilities. Albright played a decisive part in the passage of the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916; the formulation of principles and policies for management of the parks; the defense of the parks against exploitation by ranchers, lumber companies, and mining interests during World War I; and other issues crucial to the future of the fledgling park system. This authoritative behind-the-scenes history sheds light on the early days of the most popular of all federal agencies while painting a vivid picture of American life in the early twentieth century.