LEADER 04182nam 22006014a 450 001 9910956848403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780826264442 010 $a0826264441 035 $a(CKB)1000000000007566 035 $a(OCoLC)61428345 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10063472 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000250872 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11174268 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000250872 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10245056 035 $a(PQKB)11457450 035 $a(OCoLC)868219513 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29189 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3440693 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10063472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3440693 035 $a(Perlego)1704467 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000007566 100 $a20030903d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe state park movement in America $ea crictical review /$fNey C. Landrum 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (306 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780826220189 311 08$a0826220185 311 08$a9780826215000 311 08$a0826215009 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-272). 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- The Need for State Parks -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Parks Americana -- The Nature of Parks -- The States Begin to Stir -- The Momentum Builds -- Coalescence -- A State Park Every Hundred Miles -- Dubious Progress -- An Unexpected Boon -- Recovery and Beyond -- A Major Interruption -- The Continuing Search for Direction -- A New Era of Federal-State Cooperation -- Signs of Maturity -- A Look behind the Scenes -- Anything Goes -- Looking to the Future -- Appendix -- Selected Bibliog aphy -- Index. 330 8 $aEssentially a phenomenon of the twentieth century, America's pioneering state park movement has grown rapidly and innovatively to become one of the most important forces in the preservation of open spaces and the provision of public outdoor recreation in the country. During this time, the movement has been influenced and shaped by many factors-social, cultural, and economic-resulting in a wide variety of expressions. While everyone agrees that the state park movement has been a positive and beneficial force on the whole, there seems to be an increasing divergence of thought as to exactly what direction the movement should take in the future. In The State Park Movement in America, Ney Landrum, recipient of almost two dozen honors and awards for his service to state and national parks, places the movement for state parks in the context of the movements for urban and local parks on one side and for national parks on the other. He traces the evolution of the state park movement from its imprecise and largely unconnected origins to its present status as an essential and firmly established state government responsibility, nationwide in scope. Because the movement has taken a number of separate, but roughly parallel, paths and produced differing schools of thought concerning its purpose and direction, Landrum also analyzes the circumstances and events that have contributed to these disparate results and offers critical commentary based on his long tenure in the system. As the first study of its kind, The State Park Movement in America will fill a tremendous void in the literature on parks. Given that there are more than five thousand state parks in the United States, compared with fewer than five hundred national parks and historic sites, this history is long overdue. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned with federal, state, or local parks, as well as to land resource managers generally. 606 $aParks$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aParks$xHistory. 676 $a333.78/3/0973 700 $aLandrum$b Ney C.$f1931-$01811737 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956848403321 996 $aThe state park movement in America$94363790 997 $aUNINA