Our National Park System
Subtitle: Caring for America's Greatest Natural and Historic Treasures
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780252065583
Subjects: NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS; Environmental Science; General; Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration; Environmental Studies; Nature/Ecology
First sentence: When Yellowstone National Park was set aside on March 1, 1872, the first such park in the world, no one then foresaw that it would one day become part of a uniquely American conglomerate of more than 365 sites-the national park system.