Preserving Nature in the National Parks
Subtitle: A History
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: March 11, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780300075786
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Management of land & natural resources; Social history; Zoos & wildlife parks; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Nature; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology; USA; Environmental Science; United States - General; Science / General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Natural Resources
First sentence: There was a time, through the middle of the twentieth century, when the national parks reigned indisputably as America's grandest summertime pleasuring grounds.