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Author : Stanley William Lohman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Geologic Story of Arches National Park written by Stanley William Lohman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 1454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 1540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author : Ethan Carr
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558495876
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Mission 66 written by Ethan Carr and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. Elimination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and other New Deal programs further reduced the ability of the federal government to keep pace with the wear and tear on park facilities. To address the problem, in 1956 a ten-year, billion-dollar initiative titled Mission 66 was launched, timed to be completed in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the National Park Service. The program covered more than one hundred visitor centers (a building type invented by Mission 66 planners), expanded campgrounds, innumerable comfort stations and other public facilities, new and wider roads, parking lots, maintenance buildings, and hundreds of employee residences. During this transformation, the park system also acquired new seashores, recreation areas, and historical parks, agency uniforms were modernized, and the arrowhead logo became a ubiquitous symbol. To a significant degree, the national park system and the National Park Service as we know them today are products of the Mission 66 era. Mission 66 was controversial at the time, and it continues to incite debate over the policies it represented. Hastening the advent of the modern environmental movement, it transformed the Sierra Club from a regional mountaineering club into a national advocacy organization. But Mission 66 was also the last systemwide, planned development campaign to accommodate increased numbers of automotive tourists. Whatever our judgment of Mission 66, we still use the roads, visitor centers, and other facilities the program built. Ethan Carr's book examines the significance of the Mission 66 program and explores the influence of midcentury modernism on landscape design and park planning. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape historians, and all who care about our national parks will enjoy this copiously illustrated history of a critical period in the development of the national park system. Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http: //lalh.org/
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Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813922577
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Lines on the Land written by Scott Herring and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lines on the Land Writers, Art, and the National Parks Scott Herring 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. In Lines on the Land, Scott Herring contends that these writers and artists were canon makers, recognizing the national parks as naturally occurring works of art and conferring upon them a cultural prestige: the parks were the splendid focal points of the American landscape. These early, canonizing works are homages to a vast, untouched wilderness. This praise would gradually give way, however, to a distinctly American anger--what Herring calls "outraged idealism." Later generations were faced with a changing culture that had imperfectly absorbed, and even misrepresented, the national-park aesthetic. The postwar park was overrun by cars and tourists who could not possibly match the pioneering naturalists' profound commitment to and appreciation for their surroundings. The collective tone of the parks' chroniclers, as a result, evolved from celebration of awesome beauty to indignation over the perceived corruption of the parks, both as an ideal and as actual physical settings. Herring traces this shift through the work of a wide spectrum of creative minds, from early figures such as Muir and Thomas Moran to later observers of the parks such as Ansel Adams, Sylvia Plath, Edward Abbey, and Rick Bass. The text is punctuated by autobiographical "interchapters," in which Herring relates the book's chief themes to his own experiences in Yellowstone National Park. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Author : Dennis Drabelle
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496220773
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Power of Scenery written by Dennis Drabelle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Scenery tells the story of how the world’s national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted’s insights and energy serving to link three American jewels: Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara Falls State Park.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Total Pages : 2052 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 2052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress Senate
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Total Pages : 2738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 2738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick H. Swanson
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ISBN 13 : 9781607817659
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Wonders of Sand and Stone written by Frederick H. Swanson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Delicate Arch to the Zion Narrows, Utah's five national parks and eight national monuments are home to some of America's most amazing scenic treasures, created over long expanses of geologic time. In Wonders of Sand and Stone, Frederick H. Swanson traces the recent human story behind the creation of these places as part of a protected mini-empire of public lands. Drawing on extensive historical research, Swanson presents little-known accounts of people who saw in these sculptured landscapes something worth protecting. Readers are introduced to the region's early explorers, scientists, artists, and travelers as well as the local residents and tourism promoters who worked with the National Park Service to build the system of parks and monuments we know today, when Utah's national parks and monuments face multiple challenges from increased human use and from development outside their borders. As scientists continue to uncover the astonishing diversity of life in these desert and mountain landscapes, and archaeologists and Native Americans document their rich cultural resources, the management of these federal lands remains critically important. Swanson provides us with a detailed and timely background to advance and inform discussions about what form that management should take.
Author : Barry Mackintosh
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The National Parks written by Barry Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. National Park Service
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur R. Gómez
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Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Quest for the Golden Circle written by Arthur R. Gómez and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until World War II, the Four Corners Region—where New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona meet—was a collection of isolated rural towns. In the postwar baby boom era, however, small communities like Farmington, New Mexico, became bustling municipalities with rapidly expanding economies. In Quest for the Golden Circle, Arthur Gomez traces the development of the Four Corners' two industries, mining and tourism, to discover how each contributed to the economic and urban transformation of this region during the 1950s and 1960s. Focusing on four cities—Durango, Colorado; Moab, Utah; Flagstaff, Arizona; and Farmington, New Mexico—Gomez chronicles how these towns played key roles in the West's dramatic postwar expansion. Cities such as Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, and Salt Lake City all grew through use of the abundant petroleum, uranium, natural gas, timber, and other natural resources extracted from the Four Corners region. But the energy boom in these towns was not to last. With the arrival of foreign oil bringing economic growth to a halt in the early 1970s, town leaders turned again to the land to stimulate their economy. This time, the resource was a seemingly inexhaustible one—tourism. Gomez examines how business-minded citizens marketed the area's scenic wonders and established the entire region as a tourist destination. Their efforts were further assisted by the selection of stunning federal lands—Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, and Arches National Parks—as treasures protected and promoted by the National Park Service. Both mining and tourism, however, were beset by complex new problems and issues. Extensive highways, for instance, were planned to bisect a Navajo reservation. As Gomez illustrates, the growing cities in the Four Corners region felt tremendous competing pressures between outside business powers and local needs as their extractive economy boomed and busted and as they then struggled to attract tourism dollars. In addition, he highlights the prominent roles played by federal agencies like the Atomic Energy Commission and the National Park Service in shaping regional destiny. An outstanding analysis of the complexities of postwar development, Quest for the Golden Circle successfully illuminates the history of one region within the larger story of the modern American West.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Policies, Programs, and Activities of the Department of the Interior written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Dinosaur National Monument (N.M.), Assessment of Effect for the Quarry Visitor Center Treatment Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
