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The National Parks A Century Of Grace
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Book Synopsis The National Parks: A Century of Grace by : Karla K. Morton
Download or read book The National Parks: A Century of Grace written by Karla K. Morton and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poets Karla K. Morton and Alan Birkelbach began this journey to celebrate our national parks' one hundredth anniversary, but for these two poets the sojourns quickly became something greater than that. In their words, "As humans we have this tendency to look at a piece of land and see real estate. [But] when concrete covers all our natural spaces, not only do we lose earth's creatures, we also lose the great teacher of our souls. You cannot sit beneath trees taller than the Statue of Liberty, or gaze upon vistas untouched since their creation, without feeling the awe and wonder of what the natural world has to offer. You cannot experience such beauty without being wholly changed. Our great-great-great-grandchildren deserve these untouched gifts." This journey, illustrated with gorgeous color photos of all of America's grand national parks, is a feast for the eyes and heart. In the end, it is a plea for us to save these wonders for all future generations.
Book Synopsis Advancing the National Park Idea by : National Parks Century Commission
Download or read book Advancing the National Park Idea written by National Parks Century Commission and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-13 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A recommendation by the National Park Service Commission on how the national park idea and National Park Service can help meet America's 21st-century needs.
Download or read book National Parks written by Alfred Runte and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated book well-known environmental historian Alfred Runte, a prominent figure on the Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea, tells the highly engaging story of the development of our national parks, from the first national park, Yellowstone, to the more recent decision to set aside vast tracts of Alaska for preservation.
Book Synopsis Wilderness in National Parks by : John C. Miles
Download or read book Wilderness in National Parks written by John C. Miles and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation. By examining the overlapping and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the park service and the national wilderness preservation system, John C. Miles finds the National Park Service still struggling to deal with an idea that lies at the core of its mission and yet complicates that mission, nearly one hundred years into its existence. The National Park Service's ambivalence about wilderness is traced from its beginning to the turn of the twenty-first century. The Service is charged with managing more wilderness acreage than any government agency in the world and, in its early years, frequently favored development over preservation. The public has perceived national parks as permanently protected wilderness resources, but in reality this public confidence rests on shaky ground. Miles shows how changing conceptions of wilderness affected park management over the years, with a focus on the tension between the goals of providing recreational spaces for the American people and leaving lands pristine and undeveloped for future generations.
Book Synopsis The Hour of Land by : Terry Tempest Williams
Download or read book The Hour of Land written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.
Book Synopsis Advancing the National Park Idea by : National Parks Second Century Commission
Download or read book Advancing the National Park Idea written by National Parks Second Century Commission and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The National Parks by : W. Clark Bunting
Download or read book The National Parks written by W. Clark Bunting and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pays tribute to the landscape, diversity of species, and spirit found in American national parks.
Book Synopsis Creating the National Park Service by : Horace M. Albright
Download or read book Creating the National Park Service written by Horace M. Albright and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men played a crucial role in the creation and early history of the National Park Service: Stephen T. Mather, a public relations genius of sweeping vision, and Horace M. Albright, an able lawyer and administrator who helped transform that vision into reality. In Creating the National Park Service, Albright and his daughter, Marian Albright Schenck, reveal the previously untold story of the critical "missing years" in the history of the service. During this period, 1917 and 1918, Mather's problems with manic depression were kept hidden from public view, and Albright, his able and devoted assistant, served as acting director and assumed Mather's responsibilities. Albright played a decisive part in the passage of the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916; the formulation of principles and policies for management of the parks; the defense of the parks against exploitation by ranchers, lumber companies, and mining interests during World War I; and other issues crucial to the future of the fledgling park system. This authoritative behind-the-scenes history sheds light on the early days of the most popular of all federal agencies while painting a vivid picture of American life in the early twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Rethinking the National Parks for the 21st Century by : United States. National Park System Advisory Board
Download or read book Rethinking the National Parks for the 21st Century written by United States. National Park System Advisory Board and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Royal Landscape written by Jane Roberts and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The parks that surround England's Windsor Castle were established in the Middle Ages for the protection of the royal deer. With the assistance of documents in the Public Record Office and the Royal Archives, and works of art in the Royal Collection, Jane Roberts has created an extensive and beautifully illustrated history of this royal acreage. 200 color & 300 b&w illustrations.
Book Synopsis Politics of the Minotaur by : karla k. morton
Download or read book Politics of the Minotaur written by karla k. morton and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are moments in this life that change everything—some in our control, some not, but all shape the core of who we are; who we become. Every action, every event, has its own reaction that rearranges the stars, putting the sisters of Fate and Choice in constant question. This collection embraces those changes, opens them up, rolls them into the delicious magic of this unpredictable, glorious world. A long observer of the natural world, karla k. morton does not believe in coincidences, but believes every word and step and observation has meaning and guides us. Just as the creation of the Minotaur was the gods’ doing, there is beauty in the monster; there is reason and magic in its very existence. How lucky we are to be able to grow old enough to witness such revelations. Morton’s poetry guides us through the landmarks—the highs, the lows, creating an exquisite world within an ever-changing landscape of chaos. The Margaret Lea Houston Series ... from “Pentimento” I have a few regrets, but not one of them is loving you.
Book Synopsis National Park Service Science in the 21st Century by : United States. National Park System Advisory Board
Download or read book National Park Service Science in the 21st Century written by United States. National Park System Advisory Board and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The National Parks by : Freeman Tilden
Download or read book The National Parks written by Freeman Tilden and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our National Parks written by John Muir and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sierra Club founder offers an extensive overview of America's national parks at the turn of the 20th century, including appraisals of Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant. Includes vintage photos.
Book Synopsis The Book of the National Parks by : Robert Sterling Yard
Download or read book The Book of the National Parks written by Robert Sterling Yard and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature's Spectacle written by John Sheail and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed. The book celebrates the deserved attractiveness of the parks as wilderness or 'spectacle' to millions of visitors, but also emphasises how there was nothing inevitable, self-sustaining or without cost in their magnificence and accessibility. Those early parks were a powerful unifying force as national 'playgrounds', especially as motor transport democratised their use. However they also provoked bitter conflict in their dispossession of local communities and perhaps deliberate segregation of people from scenery and wildlife. That first century of national parks, which concluded with the significant break of the Second World War and the subsequent development of more international approaches to conservation, left an uncertain legacy. It was a fragile foundation from which to build what became an integral part of today's conservation movement.
Book Synopsis Guardians of the Parks by : John C. Miles
Download or read book Guardians of the Parks written by John C. Miles and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1995 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
