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America's National Park System: The Critical Documents
Author(s): Lary M. Dilsaver (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date: 6 Sept. 1994
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 0847679225
- ISBN-13: 9780847679225
Book Description
This invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America’s national park system. The extensive group of documents illustrate the system’s creation, development, and management. They include laws that established and shaped the system; policy statements on park management; Park Service self-evaluations; and outside studies by a range of scientists, conservation organizations, private groups, and businesses.
Editorial Reviews
Review
An important addition to the library of any environmental historian. Environmental History The work has great value as a reference at all levels and for a range of programs in policy and resource issues. CHOICE An invaluable reference… Dilsaver’s book takes the legislation that created the parks and related documents and presents this material to the reader in an easily accessible and understandable format. The book is not only an important contribution to understanding the history of our national parks, but is the most important published source available today that uses primary sources to explain how and why our national park system came into being and evolved into the magnificent system it is today. — Harry Butowsky, National Park Service An indispensable reference to all persons, in and outside the National Park Service, responsible for or interested in park resources. — Edwin C. Bearss, Chief Historian Emeritus of the National Park Service Future park scholarship will be clearer and easier with these invaluable documents together. We owe Dilsaver our thanks. — Terence Young, Cal Poly Pomona Professor Dilsaver’s compilation and commentary will be of great value both to those directly responsible for our national parks and to others interested in how our park management policies and practices have evolved. The National Park Service and its supporters are deeply in his debt. — Barry Mackintosh, National Park Service The documents compiled by Dilsaver reveal the basic structure of national park history. They are essential to understanding the changing nature of the National Park Service’s management of the parks. — Richard West Sellars, National Park Service A comprehensive collection of the important documents pertaining to the National Park System… This is the best such compilation of National Park legislation available. Journal of the West
About the Author
Lary M. Dilsaver is professor of geography at the University of South Alabama and coeditor with Craig E. Colten of The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies (Rowman & Littlefield, 1993).
