Wilderness Nation

Author : Patrick Kupper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782383741

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Creating Wilderness by Patrick Kupper Pdf

The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.

Author : Christopher Armstrong,H. V. Nelles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1552386341

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Wilderness and Waterpower by Christopher Armstrong,H. V. Nelles Pdf

This engaging book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. It is also a lively national story, involving the irrepressible and impetuous Max Aitkin (later Lord Beaverbook), R.B. Bennett (local legal advisor and later prime minister), and a series of local politicians and bureaucrats whose contributions confuse and conflate issues along the way.

Author : Mark Harvey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780684859095

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The National Outdoor Leadership School's Wilderness Guide by Mark Harvey Pdf

A guide for backpackers, hikers, and other wilderness buffs offers information on equipment and techniques, search and rescue methods, cooking, and safety.

Author : John C. Miles
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295990392

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Wilderness in National Parks by John C. Miles Pdf

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.

Author : Bruce Erickson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822510

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Canoe Nation by Bruce Erickson Pdf

More than an ancient means of transportation and trade, the canoe has come to be a symbol of Canada itself. In Canoe Nation, Bruce Erickson argues that the canoe's sentimental power has come about through a set of narratives that attempt to legitimize a particular vision of Canada that overvalues the nation's connection to nature. From Alexander Mackenzie to Grey Owl to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the canoe authenticates Canada's reputation as a tolerant, environmentalist nation, even when there is abundant evidence to the contrary. Ultimately, the stories we tell about the canoe need to be understood as moments in the ever-contested field of cultural politics.

Author : John W. Newton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781532688157

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Wilderness Nation by John W. Newton Pdf

This is the story of a young frontiersman and Lakota maiden who marry and establish a trading post in the northwest region of the Louisiana Territory during the mid-1800s. It’s about dealing with their very real feelings of love and hate, strength and fear, joy and sadness as they face numerous challenges in bridging the gap between two seemingly incompatible cultures. It’s a story about fulfilling a dream and the perseverance it takes to accomplish it. Additionally, Wilderness Nation describes the expansive beauty and wonders of nature and the undeniable unity that exists among all creatures of life, all people, and God. The book further offers a unique and profound philosophy of life that’s championed by an enlightened group of Native Americans confined to a single village of a few hundred people. The Lakota philosophy takes a very realistic approach to the world. It accepts all its good aspects, including the joys of life, sound health and happiness, and justice when served. But it also understands the world with its numerous bad features of floods and bitter cold weather, the dangers of illness, and the violence and death that results from hostile enemies. In living a good life, each Lakota villager will eventually be united with the Great Spirit of Life.

Author : Mark David Spence
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199880683

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Dispossessing the Wilderness by Mark David Spence Pdf

National parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places with the links between Indian policy developments and preservationist efforts, this work examines the complex origins of the national parks and the troubling consequences of the American wilderness ideal. The first study to place national park history within the context of the early reservation era, it details the ways that national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Land titles
ISBN : PSU:000023821323

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Additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks Pdf

Author : Lauren Danner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0874223520

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Crown Jewel Wilderness by Lauren Danner Pdf

North Cascades National Park is remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic. Efforts to establish a park gained traction after World War II, as national interest in wilderness preservation and concerns about the impact of harvesting timber grew. Troubled by the National Park Service¿s policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service¿s policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies. Their activism eventually led to the 1968 creation of a crown jewel--Washington¿s magnificent third national park. This engaging account tells the story.

Author : J. Keri Cronin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774819091

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Manufacturing National Park Nature by J. Keri Cronin Pdf

National parks occupy a prominent place in the Canadian imagination, yet we are only beginning to understand how their visual representation has shaped and continues to inform our perceptions of ecological issues and the natural world. J. Keri Cronin draws on historical and modern postcards, advertisements, and other images of Jasper National Park to trace how various groups and the tourism industry have used photography to divorce the park from real environmental threats and instead package it as a series of breathtaking vistas and adorable-looking animals. Manufacturing National Park Nature demonstrates that popular forms of picturing nature can have ecological implications that extend far beyond the frame of the image.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Animals
ISBN : MINN:31951D011789644

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Wilderness by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ethan Carr
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 080326383X

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Wilderness by Design by Ethan Carr Pdf

Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030150205

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Gates of the Arctic National Park (N.P.) and Preserve, Wilderness Recommendation by Anonim Pdf

Author : William N. Rom
Publisher : Minneapolis, Minn. : Voyageur Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1990-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0896580652

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Canoe Country Wilderness by William N. Rom Pdf

Hit the road with Voyageur Press. From sea to shining sea, Voyageur has the illustrated travel and regional interest titles your customers want, whether for travel planning or keepsake. So plan ahead and create a travel showcase and promotion--including our books--geared towards the traveler; and you won't be disappointed with the results.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Environmental impact statements
ISBN : IND:30000090083423

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Final Environmental Impact Statement for Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests by Anonim Pdf