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- catalog abstract "This authoritative and stirring assessment of our public lands - the first book ever published to give the history and propose the future of each unit of a federal trust that today accounts for approximately one-third of America's landmass - begins with the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. The national park concept, which the historian Lord Bryce called the best idea to come out of the New World, was the first attempt by a national government to preserve land for future generations. Since then, hundreds of additional parks, monuments, historic sites, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges have been added to a vast system of public lands that also includes national forest and Bureau of Land Management holdings. The preservation of our nation's natural heritage has become a model throughout the world, but the fight to keep public land unspoiled - from the Everglades to Alaskan mountain ranges - is never-ending, as this lively and dramatic history of America reveals. This preservationist idea did not come naturally: the myth of the land's superabundance dominated the thinking of Americans even after the frontier was officially closed one hundred years ago. Frontier greed and carelessness, combined with business and political pressures for local control, continue to threaten our parks, forests, and wilderness lands today. The battles over these lands, especially as their outcomes determine present and future patterns of land use, will continue to define our civilization. These American Lands assesses management policy within each unit and demonstrates why the citizen's vigilance is necessary today if future Americans are to look upon our natural legacy as the crowning achievement of the twentieth century.".
- catalog contributor b6183921.
- catalog contributor b6183922.
- catalog contributor b6183923.
- catalog contributor b6183924.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-390) and index.".
- catalog description "Pleasuring grounds, the national park system -- Heart of wood, the national forest system -- Leftover legacy, the national resource lands of the BLM -- Islands of life, the national wildlife refuge system -- Freedom of the wilderness, the national wilderness preservation system -- Inland passages, the national wild and scenic rivers and national trails systems -- State of nature, the national interest lands of Alaska.".
- catalog description "This authoritative and stirring assessment of our public lands - the first book ever published to give the history and propose the future of each unit of a federal trust that today accounts for approximately one-third of America's landmass - begins with the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. The national park concept, which the historian Lord Bryce called the best idea to come out of the New World, was the first attempt by a national government to preserve land for future generations. Since then, hundreds of additional parks, monuments, historic sites, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges have been added to a vast system of public lands that also includes national forest and Bureau of Land Management holdings. The preservation of our nation's natural heritage has become a model throughout the world, but the fight to keep public land unspoiled - from the Everglades to Alaskan mountain ranges - is never-ending, as this lively and dramatic history of America reveals. This preservationist idea did not come naturally: the myth of the land's superabundance dominated the thinking of Americans even after the frontier was officially closed one hundred years ago. Frontier greed and carelessness, combined with business and political pressures for local control, continue to threaten our parks, forests, and wilderness lands today. The battles over these lands, especially as their outcomes determine present and future patterns of land use, will continue to define our civilization. These American Lands assesses management policy within each unit and demonstrates why the citizen's vigilance is necessary today if future Americans are to look upon our natural legacy as the crowning achievement of the twentieth century.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 398 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "These American lands.".
- catalog identifier "1559632399".
- catalog identifier "1559632402 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "These American lands.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Island Press,".
- catalog relation "These American lands.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973 20".
- catalog subject "E160 .Z37 1994".
- catalog subject "National parks and reserves United States History.".
- catalog subject "Public lands United States History.".
- catalog subject "Wilderness areas United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pleasuring grounds, the national park system -- Heart of wood, the national forest system -- Leftover legacy, the national resource lands of the BLM -- Islands of life, the national wildlife refuge system -- Freedom of the wilderness, the national wilderness preservation system -- Inland passages, the national wild and scenic rivers and national trails systems -- State of nature, the national interest lands of Alaska.".
- catalog title "These American lands : parks, wilderness, and the public lands / Dyan Zaslowsky and T.H. Watkins, the Wilderness Society.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".