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Book Mission 66 for Katmai National Monument

Download or read book Mission 66 for Katmai National Monument written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1956* with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mission 66 for Federal Hall National Memorial

Download or read book Mission 66 for Federal Hall National Memorial written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Building in an Ashen Land

Download or read book Building in an Ashen Land written by Janet Clemens and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proposed Katmai National Park  Alaska

Download or read book Proposed Katmai National Park Alaska written by United States. Department of the Interior. Alaska Planning Group and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Park Service, Department of the Interior, proposes that Congress establish a 4,453,000-acre Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula approximately 200 miles from Anchorage, Alaska. The park so established would include the lands and waters contained in the present Katmai National Monument and other lands selected in accordance with provisions of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Also proposed is a conceptual master plan that would guide management and development after the area is established as a national park.

Book  Do Things Right the First Time

Download or read book Do Things Right the First Time written by George F. Williss and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Facts about Mission 66

Download or read book Facts about Mission 66 written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1957* with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Parks Belong to the People

Download or read book The Parks Belong to the People written by Joe Weber and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In examining the 424 units of the U.S. national park system, geographers Joe Weber and Selima Sultana focus attention on the historical geography of the system as well as its present distribution, covering the diversity of places under the control of the National Park Service (NPS). This includes the famous national parks such as the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Yosemite and the lesser-known national monuments, memorials, lakeshores, seashores, rivers, recreation areas, preserves, reserves, parkways, historic sites, historic parks, and a range of battlefields, as well as more than twenty additional sites not fitting into any of these categories (such as the White House). The geographic view of The Parks Belong to the People sets it apart from others that have taken a solely historical approach. Where parks are located, what they are near, where their visitors come from, and how land use and activities are organized within parks are some of the fundamental issues discussed. The majority of units in the NPS are devoted to recreation areas or historic sites such as battlefields, archaeological sites, or sites devoted to a specific person, and this is reflected in the authors’ approach. What we think of as a national park has changed over the years and will continue to change. Weber and Sultana emphasize changing social and political environments in which NPS units were created and the roles they serve, such as protecting scenery, providing wildlife habitats, preserving history, and serving as scientific laboratories and places for outdoor recreation. The authors also focus on parks as public facilities and sites of economic activities. National parks were created by people for people to enjoy, at great cost and with great benefit. They cannot be understood without taking this human context into account.

Book Mission 66

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ethan Carr
  • Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781558495876
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mission 66 written by Ethan Carr and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. Elimination of the Civilian Conservation Corps and other New Deal programs further reduced the ability of the federal government to keep pace with the wear and tear on park facilities. To address the problem, in 1956 a ten-year, billion-dollar initiative titled Mission 66 was launched, timed to be completed in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the National Park Service. The program covered more than one hundred visitor centers (a building type invented by Mission 66 planners), expanded campgrounds, innumerable comfort stations and other public facilities, new and wider roads, parking lots, maintenance buildings, and hundreds of employee residences. During this transformation, the park system also acquired new seashores, recreation areas, and historical parks, agency uniforms were modernized, and the arrowhead logo became a ubiquitous symbol. To a significant degree, the national park system and the National Park Service as we know them today are products of the Mission 66 era. Mission 66 was controversial at the time, and it continues to incite debate over the policies it represented. Hastening the advent of the modern environmental movement, it transformed the Sierra Club from a regional mountaineering club into a national advocacy organization. But Mission 66 was also the last systemwide, planned development campaign to accommodate increased numbers of automotive tourists. Whatever our judgment of Mission 66, we still use the roads, visitor centers, and other facilities the program built. Ethan Carr's book examines the significance of the Mission 66 program and explores the influence of midcentury modernism on landscape design and park planning. Environmental and park historians, architectural and landscape historians, and all who care about our national parks will enjoy this copiously illustrated history of a critical period in the development of the national park system. Published in association with Library of American Landscape History: http: //lalh.org/

Book ORRC Study Report

Download or read book ORRC Study Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mission 66 for Tumacacori National Monument

Download or read book Mission 66 for Tumacacori National Monument written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bears of Brooks Falls  Wildlife and Survival on Alaska s Brooks River

Download or read book The Bears of Brooks Falls Wildlife and Survival on Alaska s Brooks River written by Michael Fitz and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A natural history and celebration of the famous bears and salmon of Brooks River. On the Alaska Peninsula, where exceptional landscapes are commonplace, a small river attracts attention far beyond its scale. Each year, from summer to early fall, brown bears and salmon gather at Brooks River to create one of North America’s greatest wildlife spectacles. As the salmon leap from the cascade, dozens of bears are there to catch them (with as many as forty-three bears sighted in a single day), and thousands of people come to watch in person or on the National Park Service’s popular Brooks Falls Bearcam. The Bears of Brooks Falls tells the story of this region and the bears that made it famous in three parts. The first forms an ecological history of the region, from its dormancy 30,000 years ago to the volcanic events that transformed it into the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes. The central and longest section is a deep dive into the lives of the wildlife along the Brooks River, especially the bears and salmon. Readers will learn about the bears’ winter hibernation, mating season, hunting rituals, migration patterns, and their relationship with Alaska’s changing environment. Finally, the book explores the human impact, both positive and negative, on this special region and its wild population.

Book ORRRC Study Report

Download or read book ORRRC Study Report written by United States. Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ORRRC Study Report  1 27

Download or read book ORRRC Study Report 1 27 written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Parks

Download or read book The National Parks written by Barry Mackintosh and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quality of Outdoor Recreation as Evidenced by User Satisfaction

Download or read book The Quality of Outdoor Recreation as Evidenced by User Satisfaction written by Michigan State University. Department of Resource Development and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At the Heart of Katmai

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  • Author : Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth
  • Publisher : Department of Interior National Park Service
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book At the Heart of Katmai written by Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth and published by Department of Interior National Park Service. This book was released on 2013 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Outdoor Recreation Areas

Download or read book Public Outdoor Recreation Areas written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: