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Book The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps  1933 42

Download or read book The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps 1933 42 written by Alison T. Otis and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emergency Conservation Work

Download or read book Emergency Conservation Work written by United States. Dept. of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rocky Mountain National Park

Download or read book The Rocky Mountain National Park written by Enos A. Mills and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brochure includes information on Rocky Mountain Parks Transportation Company tours through the Park.

Book Landscapes for the People

Download or read book Landscapes for the People written by Ren Davis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape photography. Just as they did the work of his contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and others, millions of people viewed Grant’s photographs; unlike those contemporaries, few even knew Grant’s name. Landscapes for the People shares his story through his remarkable images and a compelling biography profiling patience, perseverance, dedication, and an unsurpassed love of the natural and historic places that Americans chose to preserve. A Pennsylvania native, Grant was introduced to the parks during the summer of 1922 and resolved to make parks work and photography his life. Seven years later, he received his dream job and spent the next quarter century visiting the four corners of the country to produce images in more than one hundred national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, and other locations. He was there to visually document the dramatic expansion of the National Park Service during the New Deal, including the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Grant’s images are the work of a master craftsman. His practiced eye for composition and exposure and his patience to capture subjects in their finest light are comparable to those of his more widely known contemporaries. Nearly fifty years after his death, and in concert with the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, it is fitting that George Grant’s photography be introduced to a new generation of Americans.

Book Rocky Mountain National Park

Download or read book Rocky Mountain National Park written by C. W. Buchholtz and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 1983 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Parks for Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Wright Steely
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-07-05
  • ISBN : 0292786999
  • Pages : 469 pages

Download or read book Parks for Texas written by James Wright Steely and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State parks across Texas offer a world of opportunities for recreation and education. Yet few park visitors or park managers know the remarkable story of how this magnificent state park system came into being during the depths of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Drawing on archival records and examining especially the political context of the New Deal, James Wright Steely here provides the first comprehensive history of the founding and building of the Texas state park system. Steely's history begins in the 1880s with the movement to establish parks around historical sites from the Texas Revolution. He follows the fits-and-starts progress of park development through the early 1920s, when Governor Pat Neff envisioned the kind of park system that ultimately came into being between 1933 and 1942. During the Depression an amazing cast of personalities from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson led, followed, or obstructed the drive to create this state park system. The New Deal federal-state partnerships for depression relief gave Texas the funding and personnel to build 52 recreational parks under the direction of the National Park Service. Steely focuses in detail on the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps, whose members built parks from Caddo Lake in the east to the first park improvements in the Big Bend out west. An appendix lists and describes all the state parks in Texas through 1945, while Steely's epilogue brings the parks' story up to the present.

Book Park Structures and Facilities

Download or read book Park Structures and Facilities written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Presenting Nature

Download or read book Presenting Nature written by Linda Flint McClelland and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1993 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book It Happened In Rocky Mountain National Park

Download or read book It Happened In Rocky Mountain National Park written by Phyllis J. Perry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an out-of-control wildfire that nearly destroyed a town to a serial spouse killer in Estes Park, It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of Colorado’s largest national park. Learn how two teens’ attempt to scale the Diamond—a sheer granite cliff so dangerous that climbing it used to be outlawed—resulted in one of the most complicated rescues in the park’s history. Read about the life and untimely demise of Rocky Mountain Jim, who was badly scarred by a grizzly bear attack and earned a reputation as an eccentric but highly skilled wilderness guide. And meet Harriet Peters, an unusually tenacious girl who summited 14,259-foot-tall Longs Peak at the tender age of eight.

Book It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park

Download or read book It Happened in Rocky Mountain National Park written by Phyllis Perry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 3.3 million visitors each year, many unexpected things occur in this phenomenal park -- floods, cougar attacks and brave rescues -- in addition to achievements such as the building of the highest paved road in the world.

Book Historic Rocky Mountain National Park

Download or read book Historic Rocky Mountain National Park written by Randi Minetor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic Rocky Mountain National Park captures fascinating moments and untold stories in the history of this magnificent national park, from the days when Paleo-Indians roamed between the mountain peaks to the settlement of the valleys by ranchers and hoteliers. Stories of the Ute and Arapaho tribes, the 1859 Gold Rush, the first people to summit 14,259-foot-high Long's Peak, the women who climbed to the top of the Rockies, the fossils revealed by snowfield melt, the advocates who worked to protect this landscape, and more provide just enough history to make your visit to the top of America even more exciting than you anticipated.

Book A Brief History of the National Park Service

Download or read book A Brief History of the National Park Service written by James F. Kieley and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wind Cave National Park

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peggy Sanders
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780738523064
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Wind Cave National Park written by Peggy Sanders and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind Cave is one of the longest and most complex caves in the world. Complete with more than 100 miles of surveyed cavern passageways below ground and 28,295 acres of diverse ecology above, Wind Cave National Park is an American treasure with an impressive history. The first recorded discovery of Wind Cave occurred in 1881 when brothers Jesse and Tom Bingham followed the sounds of the whistling wind and came upon the cave. In 1903, the cave and surrounding area became Wind Cave National Park, the seventh national park in the nation and the first created with a cave as its focal point. In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established a camp near the park headquarters. The CCC built roads and buildings, landscaped and made improvements to better accommodate tours inside the cave.