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Our National Park Policy by
A legislative and administrative history on the social, cultural, and intellectual significance of the national park idea. Originally published in 1961
Call Number: Cutter IAP Is2ISBN: 9781617260360Publication Date: 1961
Crimes Against Nature by
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Call Number: E-Book D17-24.5ISBN: 9780520957930Publication Date: 2014
Ansel Adams in the National Parks by
For many people images of the major national parks in th US exist in the mind's eye as Ansel Adams photographs. A dedicated environmentalist as well as renowned artist, he was one of the 20th century's most ardent champions of the parks system. He worked in more than 40 national parks over 50 years - including Shenandoah, the Great Smoky Mountains and Acadia in the East - and his work in the California High Sierra resulted in some of the most indelible images of the natural world ever made with a camera.
Call Number: Folio E160 .A297 2010ISBN: 9780316078467Publication Date: 2010
National Parks by
National Parks: TheAmerican Experience continues the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," Alfred Runte is renowned as the nation's leading historian on the meaning and management of these treasured lands. Further supported with period photographs and now twelve pages of color paintings, National Parks remains a stirring look into the lands that define America, from Yosemite and Yellowstone to wilderness Alaska.
Call Number: E160 .R78ISBN: 0803238525Publication Date: 1979
For the Enjoyment of the People by
In For the Enjoyment of the People, Mary Stuckey looks at the politics of the parks as well as what the parks can teach us about citizenship and what it means to be American. Stuckey asserts that through the national parks we can hope to explain the past, clarify the present, and project the future. Combining interdisciplinary conversations about tourism, public memory, national history, park history, the presidency, and national identity, Stuckey contributes insightful ideas to the conversation on the history of national parks while examining the natural, military, and patriotic nature of America's best idea.
Call Number: E160 .S7835 2023ISBN: 9780700634798Publication Date: 2023
An Agrarian Republic by
Dean shows how agrarian republicanism shaped the debate over slavery's expansion, spurred the creation of the Department of Agriculture and the passage of the Homestead Act, and laid the foundation for the development of the earliest nature parks. Spanning the long nineteenth century, Dean’s study analyzes the changing debate over land development as it transitioned from focusing on the creation of a virtuous and orderly citizenry to being seen primarily as a civilizing mission. By showing Republicans as men and women with backgrounds in small farming, Dean unveils new connections between seemingly separate historical events, linking this era's views of natural and manmade environments with interpretations of slavery and land policy.
Call Number: E415.7 .D42 2015ISBN: 9781469619910Publication Date: 2015
A President in Yellowstone by
On the morning of July 30, 1883, President Chester A. Arthur embarked on a trip of historic proportions. His destination was Yellowstone National Park, established by an act of Congress only eleven years earlier. This elegant--and fascinating--book showcases Haynes's remarkable photographic album from their six-week journey.
Call Number: E692 .G66 2012 FolioISBN: 9780806143552Publication Date: 2013
Dispossessing the Wilderness by
National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal.
Call Number: E93 .N283 2024ISBN: 0195118820Publication Date: 1999
National Parks, Native Sovereignty by
The history of national parks in the United States mirrors the fraught relations between the Department of the Interior and the nation's Indigenous peoples. But amidst the challenges are examples of success. National Parks, Native Sovereignty proposes a reorientation of relationships between tribal nations and national parks, placing Indigenous peoples as co-stewards through strategic collaboration. More than simple consultation, strategic collaboration, as the authors define it, involves the complex process by which participants come together to find ways to engage with one another across sometimes-conflicting interests.
Call Number: E93 .N283 2024ISBN: 9780806193687Publication Date: 2024
Across the Shaman's River by
Across the Shaman's River is the story of one of Alaska's last Native American strongholds, a Tlingit community closed off for a century until a fateful encounter between a shaman, a preacher, and John Muir. Using Muir's original journal entries, as well as historic writings of explorers juxtaposed with insights from contemporary tribal descendants, Across the Shaman's River reveals how Muir's famous canoe journey changed the course of history and had profound consequences on the region's Native Americans.
Call Number: E99.T6 H46 2017ISBN: 9781602233294Publication Date: 2017
A Walk in the Woods by
The Appalachian Trail trail stretches from Georgia to Maine and covers some of the most breathtaking terrain in America-majestic mountains, silent forests, sparking lakes. If you're going to take a hike, it's probably the place to go. And Bill Bryson is surely the most entertaining guide you'll find. He introduces us to the history and ecology of the trail and to some of the other hardy (or just foolhardy) folks he meets along the way-and a couple of bears. Already a classic, A Walk in the Woods will make you long for the great outdoors (or at least a comfortable chair to sit and read in).
Call Number: F106 .B92 2007ISBN: 9780307279460Publication Date: 2006
Tangled Roots by
The Appalachian Trail, a thin ribbon of wilderness running through the densely populated eastern United States, offers a refuge from modern society and a place apart from human ideas and institutions. But as environmental historian--and thru-hiker--Sarah Mittlefehldt argues, the trail is also a conduit for community engagement and a model for public-private cooperation and environmental stewardship.
Call Number: F106 .M664 2013ISBN: 9780295993003Publication Date: 2013
The Swamp by
"The Swamp" is the stunning story of the destruction and possible resurrection of the Everglades, the saga of man's abuse of nature in southern Florida and his unprecedented efforts to make amends. Michael Grunwald, a prize-winning national reporter for "The Washington Post," takes readers on a riveting journey from the Ice Ages to the present, illuminating the natural, social and political history of one of America's most beguiling but least understood patches of land.
Call Number: F317 .E9 G78 2006ISBN: 9780743251051Publication Date: 2006
Great Smokies by
The Smokies have, in fact, been a human habitat for 8,000 years, and that contact has molded the landscape as surely as natural forces have. In this book, Daniel S. Pierce examines land use in the Smokies over the centuries, describing the pageant of peoples who have inhabited these mountains and then focusing on the twentieth-century movement to create a national park. Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials, Pierce presents the most balanced account available of the development of the park.
Call Number: F443.G7 P54 2000ISBN: 1572330767Publication Date: 2000
Yellowstone National Park by
Pioneer photographer William Henry Jackson's photographs from the 1871 Hayden Survey were instrumental in persuading Congress to designate Yellowstone as a national park--America's first and greatest experiment in the preservation of an extraordinary landscape. Yellowstone National Park: Through the Lens of Time is an extended visual essay presenting Jackson's images paired with breathtaking color rephotographs of each view from photojournalist Bradly J. Boner.
Call Number: F722 .B66 2017 FolioISBN: 9781607324485Publication Date: 2017
Engineering Eden by
When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away from humans, but what was revealed as the trial unfolded was just how fruitless our efforts to regulate nature in the parks had always been. The proceedings drew to the witness stand some of the most important figures in twentieth century wilderness management, including the eminent zoologist A. Starker Leopold, who had produced a landmark conservationist document in the 1950s, and all-American twin researchers John and Frank Craighead, who ran groundbreaking bear studies at Yellowstone.
Call Number: F722 .S643 2016ISBN: 9780307454263Publication Date: 2016
Grand Canyon by
The Grand Canyon became a microcosm of the history and evolving values of the National Park Service, long conflicted between encouraging tourism and protecting nature. Many vivid characters shaped the canyon's past. Its largest story is one of cultural history and changing American visions of the land. Grand Canyon: A History of a Natural Wonder and National Park is a mixture of great storytelling, unlikely characters, and important ideas. The book will appeal to both general readers and scholars interested in seeking a broader understanding of the canyon.
Call Number: F788 .L337 2015ISBN: 9780874179903Publication Date: 2015
Olmsted and Yosemite by
How the work and writings of Frederick Law Olmsted, the founder of American landscape architecture, inspired the creation of parks to benefit the public. During the turbulent decade the United States engaged in a civil war, abolished slavery, and remade the government, the public park emerged as a product of these dramatic changes. New York's Central Park and Yosemite in California both embodied the "new birth of freedom" that had inspired the Union during its greatest crisis, epitomizing the duty of republican government to enhance the lives and well-being of all its citizens.
Call Number: F868.Y6 D53 2022ISBN: 9781952620348Publication Date: 2022
Glacier Bay by
This beautiful and informative book offers an intimate glimpse of Glacier Bay, the top-ranked park in the United States, and an important cruiseship destination. The Bauers, America's premier wildlife photography team, spent many hours photographing the icefield and its wildlife. Glacier Bay describes the creation of the park, its natural history and its recreation potential.
Call Number: F912.G5 B38 2001ISBN: 1570612102Publication Date: 2002
The Everglades by
This important work for general readers and environmentalists alike offers the first major discussion of the formation, development, and history of the Everglades, considered by many to be the most endangered ecosystem in North America. Comprehensive in scope, it begins with South Florida's geologic origins--before the Everglades became wetlands--and continues through the 20th century, when sugar reigned as king of the Everglades Agricultural Area. Urging restoration of the Everglades, McCally argues that agriculture, especially sugar growing, must be abandoned or altered.
Call Number: GE155.E84 M34 1999ISBN: 0813016487Publication Date: 2000
Nature's Return by
Located at the confluence of the Congaree and Wateree Rivers in central South Carolina, Congaree National Park protects the nation's largest intact expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest. Modern visitors to the park enjoy a pristine landscape that seems ancient and untouched by human hands, but in truth its history is far different. In Nature's Return, Mark Kinzer examines the successive waves of inhabitants, visitors, and landowners of this region by synthesizing information from property and census records, studies of forest succession, tree-ring analyses, slave narratives, and historical news accounts.
Call Number: GE155.S6 K56 2017ISBN: 9781611177664Publication Date: 2017
Presidents and the American Environment by
Presidents and the American Environment charts this course, exploring the ways in which every president from Harrison to Obama has engaged the expanding agenda of the Nature protection impulse, the book offers a clear, close-up view of the shifting and nation shaping mosaic of both "green" and "brown" policy directions over more than a century. While the history of conservation generally focuses on the work of intellectuals such as Muir, Leopold, and Carson, such efforts could only succeed or fail on a large scale with the involvement of the government, and it is this side of the story that Presidents and the American Environment tells.
Call Number: GE180 .G734 2015ISBN: 9780700620982Publication Date: 2015
Defending Giants by
Defending Giants explores the long history of the Redwood Wars, focusing on the ways rural Americans fought for control over both North Coast society and its forests. Activists defended these trees not only because the redwood forest had dwindled in size, but also because, by the late twentieth century, the local economy was increasingly dominated by multinational corporations. The resulting conflict--the Redwood Wars--pitted workers and environmental activists against the rising tide of globalization and industrial logging in a complex war over endangered species, sustainable forestry, and, of course, the fate of the last ancient redwoods.
Call Number: GE198.C2 S74 2017ISBN: 9780295999517Publication Date: 2016-10-14
The Battle for Yellowstone by
Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently become a lightning rod for environmental conflict, plagued by intense and intractable political struggles among the federal government, National Park Service, environmentalists, industry, local residents, and elected officials. The Battle for Yellowstone asks why it is that, with the flood of expert scientific, economic, and legal efforts to resolve disagreements over Yellowstone, there is no improvement? Why do even seemingly minor issues erupt into impassioned disputes? What can Yellowstone teach us about the worsening environmental conflicts worldwide? Justin Farrell argues that the battle for Yellowstone has deep moral, cultural, and spiritual roots that until now have been obscured by the supposedly rational and technical nature of the conflict. Tracing in unprecedented detail the moral causes and consequences of large-scale social change in the American West, he describes how a "new-west" social order has emerged that has devalued traditional American beliefs about manifest destiny and rugged individualism, and how morality and spirituality have influenced the most polarizing and techno-centric conflicts in Yellowstone's history. This groundbreaking book shows how the unprecedented conflict over Yellowstone is not all about science, law, or economic interests, but more surprisingly, is about cultural upheaval and the construction of new moral and spiritual boundaries in the American West.
Call Number: GE198.Y45 F37 2015ISBN: 9780691164342Publication Date: 2015
American Environmental History by
By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty-first century concerns over our global ecological crisis, American Environmental History addresses contentious issues such as the preservation of the wilderness, the expulsion of native peoples from national parks, and population growth, and considers the formative forces of gender, race, and class.
Call Number: GF503 .M47 2007ISBN: 9780231140348Publication Date: 2007
Indigenous Peoples, National Parks, and Protected Areas by
A vast number of national parks and protected areas throughout the world have been established in the customary territories of Indigenous peoples. In many cases these conservation areas have displaced Indigenous peoples, undermining their cultures, livelihoods, and self-governance, while squandering opportunities to benefit from their knowledge, values, and practices. This book makes the case for a paradigm shift in conservation from exclusionary, uninhabited national parks and wilderness areas to new kinds of protected areas that recognize Indigenous peoples' conservation contributions and rights.
Call Number: GF75 .I54 2014ISBN: 9780816530915Publication Date: 2014
Conflicted American Landscapes by
How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity. Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties- American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics.
Call Number: GF91.U6 N94 2021ISBN: 9780262542081Publication Date: 2021
The Thru-Hiker's Handbook by
Center for Appalachian Trail Studies.
Thru-hiker's handbook 1997. Georgia to Maine.
Call Number: GV199.42.A68 T47 1997ISBN: 0963634291Publication Date: 1997
America's Largest Classroom by
America's largest classroom includes 419 sites, covering more than 85 million acres in all 50 states and territories. These sites present hundreds of lessons, from battlefields to lakeshores and monuments to scenic trails, there are unlimited opportunities for immersive, reflective learning about conservation and citizenship. This book presents an interdisciplinary collection of research and case studies of such initiatives.
Call Number: LB1047 .A54 2020ISBN: 9780520340633Publication Date: 2020
Drawn to Yellowstone by
From the moment of its inception in 1872, Yellowstone was simultaneously an aesthetic experience and a potent force in America's search for national identity. By the 1890s, it was known as ‘the Nation's Art Gallery.' It was from Yellowstone that an artistic energy flowed, like the waters that pulse from its geysers, to captivate a nation and contribute to its philosophical and aesthetic history. In Drawn to Yellowstone, Peter Hassrick traces the artistic history of the park from its earliest explorers to the present day.
Call Number: N8214.5.W4 H38 2002 FolioISBN: 0295981733Publication Date: 2002
National parks and the American landscape by
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Smithsonian Institution National Collection of Fine Arts, June 23-Aug. 27, 1972, presented as a part of the National Parks Centennial Year.
Call Number: ND1351.5 .N3ISBN: 1601090455Publication Date: 1972
Lines on the Land by
The nineteenth-century photographer William Henry Jackson once complained of the skepticism with which early descriptions of Yellowstone were met: the place was too wondrous to be believed. The public demanded proof, and a host of artists and writers obliged. These early explorers possessed a vigorous devotion to the young nation's wilderness--the naturalist John Muir famously toured the land from Wisconsin to Florida on foot--and through their work established aesthetic categories that exist to this day.
Call Number: PS163 .H47 2004ISBN: 0813922577Publication Date: 2004
Twice Alive by
In the searing poems of his new collection, Twice Alive, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander addresses the exigencies of our historical moment and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world. Drawing from his training in geology and his immersion in Sangam literary traditions, Gander invests these poems with an emotional intensity that illuminates our deep-tangled interrelations.
Call Number: PS3557.A47 T85 2021ISBN: 9780811230292Publication Date: 2021
Stars above, Earth Below by
Stars Above, Earth Below uses photographs and sky charts to form a connection between what is seen on the ground and in the sky, and looks at the deeper scientific meaning behind these sights. Nordgren describes other objects in the Solar System with features similar to those on Earth and links the geological features seen in the national parks to the very latest NASA spacecraft discoveries on other planets and their moons.
Call Number: QB44.3 .N67 2010ISBN: 9781441916488Publication Date: 2010
Denali by
This beautiful and informative book is an intimate and memorable look at one of the most popular destinations in Alaska: Denali National Park. Erwin and Peggy Bauer, two of the best wildlife photographers in North America, spent hundreds of hours capturing on film the grizzlies, caribou, wolves, and natural wonders of this stunning region.
Call Number: QH105.A4 B38 2000ISBN: 1570612099Publication Date: 2002
Moving Water by
In Moving Water, environmental journalist Amy Green explores the story of unlikely conservation heroes George and Mary Barley, wealthy real estate developers and champions of the Everglades, whose complicated legacy spans from fisheries in Florida Bay to the political worlds of Tallahassee and Washington. At the center of their surprising saga is the establishment and evolution of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), a $17 billion taxpayer-funded initiative aimed at reclaiming this vital ecosystem. Green explains that, like the meandering River of Grass, the progress of CERP rarely runs straight, especially when it comes up against the fierce efforts of sugar-growing interests, or "Big Sugar," to obstruct the cleanup of fertilizer runoff wreaking havoc with restoration.
Call Number: QH105.F6 G728 2021ISBN: 9781421440361Publication Date: 2021
Granite, Fire, and Fog by
Acadia National Park, on Maine's Mount Desert Island, is among the most popular national parks in the United States. From the road, visitors can experience magnificent vistas of summit and sea, but on a more intimate scale, equally compelling views abound along Acadia's hiking trails. Tom Wessels, an ecologist, naturalist, and avid hiker, attributes the park's popularity--and its unusual beauty--to the unique way in which earth, air, fire, and water--in the form of glacially scoured granite, winter winds, fire, and ocean fog--have converged to create a landscape that can be found nowhere else
Call Number: QH105.M2 W47 2017ISBN: 9781512600087Publication Date: 2017
Natural Rivals by
At stake in 1896 was the new idea that some landscapes should be collectively, permanently owned by a democratic government. Although many people today think of public lands as an American birthright, their very existence was then in doubt, and dependent on a merger of the talents of these two men. Natural Rivals examines a time of environmental threat and political dysfunction not unlike our own, and reveals the complex dynamic that gave birth to America's rich public lands legacy.
Call Number: QH26 .C53 2019ISBN: 9781643130804Publication Date: 2019
Marjory Stoneman Douglas by
Marjory Stoneman Douglas begins this story of her life by admitting that "the hardest thing is to tell the truth about oneself" and ends it stating her belief that "life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or a longer life, are not necessary." The voice that emerges in between is a voice from the past and a voice from the future, a voice of conviction and common sense with a sense of humor, a voice so many audiences have heard over the years--tough words in a genteel accent emerging from a tiny woman in a floppy hat--which has truly become the voice of the river.
Call Number: QH31.D645 A3 1987ISBN: 0910923337Publication Date: 1988
Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy by
Rosalie Edge (1877-1962) was the first American woman to achieve national renown as a conservationist. Dyana Z. Furmansky draws on Edge's personal papers and on interviews with family members and associates to portray an implacable, indomitable personality whose activism earned her the names "Joan of Arc" and "hellcat."
Call Number: QH31.E17 F87 2009ISBN: 9780820333410Publication Date: 2009
Grinnell by
George Bird Grinnell, the son of a New York merchant, saw a different future for a nation in the thrall of the Industrial Age. With railroads scarring virgin lands and the formerly vast buffalo herds decimated, the country faced a crossroads: Could it pursue Manifest Destiny without destroying its natural bounty and beauty?
Call Number: QH31.G74 T35 2019ISBN: 9781631490132Publication Date: 2019
North American Deserts by
n the United States, six unique desert ecosystems stretch across the country: the Great Basin, Mojave, Chihuahuan, Sonoran, Peninsular, and the Painted Desert. Both a travelogue and science writing, North American Deserts: Ecology of Our Arid Lands is a celebration of these ruthlessly beautiful landscapes. Readers will be transported from the enchanting saguaro forests of Arizona and the precipitous red walls of the Grand Canyon to the monotonous, yet impressive landscapes of Nevada's Great Basin and Texas' Chihuahuan Desert.
Call Number: QH541.5.D4 G7176 2025ISBN: 9781648432217Publication Date: 2025
Critical Theory and the Anthropology of Heritage Landscapes by
This book explores the sociopolitical contexts of heritage landscapes and the many issues that emerge when different interest groups attempt to gain control over them. Based on career-spanning case studies undertaken by the author, this book looks at sites with deep indigenous histories.
Call Number: QH75 .B2647 2017ISBN: 9780813056562Publication Date: 2017
The Wilderness Writings of Howard Zahniser by
Howard Zahniser (1906-1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. The act, which created the National Wilderness Preservation System, was the culmination of Zahniser’s years of tenacious lobbying and his work with conservationists across the nation. In 1964, fifty-four wilderness areas in thirteen states were part of the system; today the number has grown to 757 areas, protecting more than a hundred million acres in forty-four states and Puerto Rico.
Call Number: QH76 .Z34 2014ISBN: 9780295993911Publication Date: 2014
The Battle for the Buffalo River by
This book is the account of this decade-long struggle that drew in such political figures as supreme court justice William O. Douglas, Senator J. William Fulbright, and Governor Orval Faubus. The battle finally ended in 1972 with President Richard Nixon's designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. Drawing on hundreds of personal letters, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, and reminiscences, Compton's lively book details the trials, gains, setbacks, and ultimate triumph in one of the first major skirmishes between environmentalists and developers.
Call Number: QH76.5.A8 C65 1992ISBN: 9781557289353Publication Date: 2010
Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch by
In the 1950s, Harriet Hunt Burgess persevered in the face of daunting obstacles and took extraordinary risks to conserve hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the American West. Without Burgess, places like the Lake Tahoe region and the California coast would be much different today. Grand Canyon to Hearst Ranch is the story of her struggle, but it is also the story of author Elizabeth Austin's search to find Burgess and tell her more personal story.
Call Number: QH76.5.W34 A97 2020ISBN: 9781493048342Publication Date: 2020
National Parks and the Woman's Voice by
This path-breaking study provides a missing chapter in the history of the nation's preservation of historic space and wild and scenic landscapes. Drawing on extensive research, including hundreds of personal interviews, Kaufman (who teaches history at the University of Southern Maine), presents the untold story of women's contributions to the national parks, often in their own words. Includes a unique and comprehensive table of "Interpretations of Women's History" exhibits at US National Parks.
Call Number: SB481.5 .K38 1996ISBN: 0826317065Publication Date: 1996
A Woman in the Great Outdoors by
Melody Webb's reflections on her twenty-five-year-long career in the National Park Service is an insider's account of a public bureaucracy. As a woman, she was working in a male-dominated agency; as an idealist, she attempted to champion the wise use of the national parks in a pragmatic political agency.
Call Number: SB481.6.W43 A3 2003ISBN: 0826331750Publication Date: 2007
The National Parks by
The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War. America's national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation's most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone.
Call Number: SB482.A4 D85 2009 FolioISBN: 9780307268969Publication Date: 2009
The Capacity for Wonder by
The national parks of North America are great public treasures, visited by 300 million people each year. Set aside to be kept in relatively natural condition, these remarkable places of forests, rivers, mountains, and wildlife still inspire our "capacity for wonder." Today, however, the parks are threatened by increasingly difficult problems from both inside and outside their borders.
Call Number: SB482.A4 L68 1994ISBN: 0815752989Publication Date: 1995
Preserving Nature in the National Parks by
This text traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery and-tourism management and emerging ecological concepts in the national parks, America's most treasured landscape.
Call Number: SB482.A4 S44 1997ISBN: 0300069316Publication Date: 1997
Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America's National Parks by
Richard Grusin's study investigates how the establishment of national parks participated in the production of American national identity after the Civil War. The creation of America's national parks is usually seen as an uncomplicated act of environmental preservation. Grusin argues, instead, that parks must be understood as complex cultural technologies for the reproduction of nature as landscape art. He explores the origins of America's three major parks - Yosemite, Yellowstone and Grand Canyon - in relation to other forms of landscape representation in the late nineteenth century.
Call Number: SB484.A4 G78 2004ISBN: 0521826497Publication Date: 2004
Developing the Pacific Northwest by
Developing the Pacific Northwest is the first full-length biography of the photographer/booster/mountaineer. Along with comparisons to work by his brother and other contemporaries, the author devotes attention to Asahel's earlier years, his family and business relationships, his involvement with irrigation and cooperative marketing in eastern Washington, and his beliefs about resource development. Together, they provide a comprehensive study of this premier Pacific Northwest photographer.
Call Number: TR140.C818 W37 2015ISBN: 9780874223316Publication Date: 2015
Landscapes for the People by
George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape photography. Just as they did the work of his contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and others, millions of people viewed Grant's photographs; unlike those contemporaries, few even knew Grant's name. Landscapes for the People shares his story through his remarkable images and a compelling biography profiling patience, perseverance, dedication, and an unsurpassed love of the natural and historic places that Americans chose to preserve.
Call Number: TR140.G724 D38 2015 FolioISBN: 9780820348414Publication Date: 2015
The Lakotas and the Black Hills by
Over the next hundred years, the Lakotas waged a remarkable campaign to recover the Black Hills, this time using the weapons of the law. In The Lakotas and the Black Hills, the latest addition to the Penguin Library of American Indian History, Jeffrey Ostler moves with ease from battlefields to reservations to the Supreme Court, capturing the enduring spiritual strength that bore the Lakotas through the worst times and kept alive the dream of reclaiming their cherished homeland.
Call Number: E99.T34 O85 2010ISBN: 9780670021956Publication Date: 2010
Inhabited Wilderness by
A history of the national parks in Alaska and how they protect the natural ecosystems while allowing certain populations to use the parks to maintain their cultural traditions.
ISBN: 9780826318268Publication Date: 1997
Wild and Scenic Rivers by
The rivers of America flow from mountains, forests, and grasslands with astonishing beauty, essential to all life. Many of the best of these streams have been safeguarded under the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968--America's premier program for the protection of our finest natural waterways.
Call Number: QH76 .P359 2017ISBN: 9780870718977Publication Date: 2017
Uncommon Ground by
A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature in our malls through the Nature Company, and the disputes between working people and environmentalists over spotted owls and other objects of species preservation. The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no solution.
Call Number: GE195 .U53 1996ISBN: 9780393315110Publication Date: 1996
Geology of National Parks by
The National Parks of the United States preserve our nation's iconic landscapes and some of the finest examples of geologic heritage. From glaciers to caves, volcanoes to canyons, or mountains to coral reefs, the nation's geologic features and landforms have been an important part of the American experience throughout its history.
Call Number: QE77 .H36 1997ISBN: 0787299715Publication Date: 1996
