LEADER 04440nam 22006255 450 001 9910779241203321 005 20230721020731.0 010 $a0-300-14366-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300143669 035 $a(CKB)2550000000105005 035 $a(EBL)3420956 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000738860 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11484167 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000738860 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10672424 035 $a(PQKB)10221439 035 $a(DE-B1597)484807 035 $a(OCoLC)1024061625 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300143669 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420956 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000105005 100 $a20200424h20082008 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPreserving Nature in the National Parks $eA History /$fRichard West Sellars 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2008] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (448 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-15414-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface to the 2009 Edition -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Creating Tradition: The Roots of National Park Management -- $tChapter 2. Codifying Tradition: The National Park Service Act of 1916 -- $tChapter 3. Perpetuating Tradition: The National Parks under Stephen T. Mather, 1916-1929 -- $tChapter 4. The Rise and Decline of Ecological Attitudes, 1929-1940 -- $tChapter 5. The War and Postwar Years, 1940-1963 -- $tChapter 6. Science and the Struggle for Bureaucratic Power: The Leopold Era, 1963-1981 -- $tChapter 7. A House Divided: The National Park Service and Environmental Leadership -- $tEpilogue -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and emerging ecological concepts in the national parks, America's most treasured landscapes. It spans the period from the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 to near the present, analyzing the management of fires, predators, elk, bear, and other natural phenomena in parks such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, and Great Smoky Mountains.Based largely on original documents never before researched, this is the most thorough history of the national parks ever written. Focusing on the decades after the National Park Service was established in 1916, the author reveals the dynamics of policy formulation and change, as landscape architects, foresters, wildlife biologists, and other Park Service professionals contended for dominance and shaped the attitudes and culture of the Service. The book provides a fresh look at the national parks and an analysis of why the Service has not responded in full faith to the environmental concerns of recent times.Richard West Sellars, a historian with the National Park Service, has become uniquely familiar with the history, culture, and dynamics of the Service-including its biases, internal alliances and rivalries, self-image, folklore, and rhetoric. The book will prove indispensable for environmental and governmental specialists and for general readers seeking an in-depth analysis of one of America's most admired federal bureaus. 606 $aNational parks and reserves -- United States -- Management -- History 606 $aNatural resources -- United States -- Management -- History 606 $aNature conservation -- United States -- History 606 $aUnited States. -- National Park Service -- History 606 $aArt, Architecture & Applied Arts$2HILCC 606 $aGardens, Landscape Architecture & Parks$2HILCC 615 4$aNational parks and reserves -- United States -- Management -- History. 615 4$aNatural resources -- United States -- Management -- History. 615 4$aNature conservation -- United States -- History. 615 4$aUnited States. -- National Park Service -- History. 615 7$aArt, Architecture & Applied Arts 615 7$aGardens, Landscape Architecture & Parks 676 $a333.7/0973 700 $aSellars$b Richard West, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01561436 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779241203321 996 $aPreserving Nature in the National Parks$93828143 997 $aUNINA