Places of quiet beauty : parks, preserves, and environmentalism /

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 a...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Conard, Rebecca
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1997.
Cyfres:American land and life series.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=21967
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Foreword / Wayne Franklin
  • Prologue
  • Conservation Parks
  • Pammel's Way
  • Reshaping Park and Conservation Goals in the 1920s
  • Toward a Resource Agency: The Twenty-five-Year Conservation Plan
  • Seeking Balance
  • The Center Does Not Hold
  • The Lightning Rod Decades
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: State Lands in Parks and Preserves, 1918-1996.