Preserving nature in the national parks : a history / Richard West Sellars.

By:

Sellars, Richard West

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2009.Description: xviii, 404 p., [16] p. of plates : illISBN:

9780300154146

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333.783 SEL

Contents:

Creating tradition : the roots of national park management -- Codifying tradition : the National Park Service Act of 1916 -- Perpetuating tradition : the national parks under Stephen T. Mather, 1916-1929 -- The rise and decline of ecological attitudes, 1929-1940 -- The war and postwar years, 1940-1963 -- Science and the struggle for bureaucratic power : the Leopold era, 1963-1981 -- A house divided : the National Park Service and environmental leadership.

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Originally published: 1997. With new preface and epilogue.

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