Description
Book SynopsisFocuses on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation. This title examines the overlapping and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the park service and the national wilderness preservation system.
Trade Review"Wilderness in National Parks is timely, original, ambitious, and comprehensive. It's a big book on a big subject." William Dietrich, author of Natural Grace: The Charm, Wonder, and Lessons of Pacific Northwest Animals and Plants "Wilderness in National Parks is an extensively researched chronological narrative of specific events driving the internal debate within the National Park Service about whether and how to treat the concept of wilderness in managing the national parks. I highly recommend the book." - Timothy Duane, University of California, Berkeley, and Vermont Law School "John Miles's Wilderness in National Parks is a well-conceived treatment of the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and wilderness and all of its proponents. He hits the right themes and nicely negotiates the twists and turns of policy. This is a solid addition to the bookshelf of national park histories." - Hal Rothman, author of The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
1. Wilderness and the Origins of National Parks
2. Wilderness and the New Agency
3. Wilderness Becomes an Issue for the Park Service
4. Preservation of the Primeval in the Post-Mather Era
5. More Ferment and Expansion
6. From the War to Director Wirth
7. The Drive for a Wilderness Act
8. A Hesitant Start at Implementation
9. Wilderness Reviews Reluctantly Completed
10. Wilderness in Alaska
11. A New Sort of National Park Wilderness
12. Park Wilderness after the Reviews
13. The Work Continues
Epilogue
Notes
Sources
Index
