TY - GEN T1 - Places of quiet beauty : parks, preserves, and environmentalism T2 - American land and life series. A1 - Conard, Rebecca LA - English PP - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press YR - 1997 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44960332 AB - Resource protection and public recreation policies have always been subject to the shifting winds of management philosophy governing both national and state parks. Somewhere in the balance, however, parks and preserves have endured as unique places of mind as well as matter. Places of Quiet Beauty allows us to see parks and preserves, forests and wildlife refuges & mdash;all those special places that the term & ldquo;park & rdquo; conjures up & mdash;as measures of our own commitment to caring for the environment. In this broad-ranging book, historian Rebecca Conard examines the complexity of. OP - 382 CN - QH76.5.I8 C66 1997eb SN - 1587290391 SN - 9781587290398 SN - 0877455589 SN - 9780877455585 KW - Nature conservation : Iowa : History. KW - Parks : Iowa : History. KW - Natural areas : Iowa : History. KW - Environmentalism : Iowa : History. KW - Nature : Conservation : Iowa : Histoire. KW - Réserves naturelles : Iowa : Histoire. KW - Environnementalisme : Iowa : Histoire. KW - NATURE : Natural Resources. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Environmental Economics. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Green Business. KW - SCIENCE : Environmental Science. KW - Environmentalism KW - Natural areas KW - Nature conservation KW - Parks KW - Iowa KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences. KW - Ecology. KW - parken KW - parks KW - tuinen KW - gardens KW - architectuur KW - architecture KW - Public Green and Parks KW - Openbare parken en groenvoorzieningen KW - History ER -