Format:
Book
Title:
Guardians of the parks : a history of the National Parks and Conservation Association / John C. Miles.
Author:
Miles, John C.
Call Number:
333.78316 M595gu
Publisher, Date:
Washington, D.C. : Taylor & Francis in cooperation with National Parks and Conservations Association, 1995.
Description:
xviii, 363 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Guardians of the Parks is the unique story of the National Parks and Conservation Association (NPCA)."--BOOK JACKET. "Created on the heels of the National Park Service, NPCA began as a citizens' organization to keep watch over the nation's national parks. It was charged with the duty of ensuring that the National Park Service remain true to its original purpose: to preserve these wild spaces as "virtually the only places where humans could seek and find answers to questions about nature and their relation to it." This book chronicles NPCA's efforts from its founding to the present day. John Miles has given us an "inside narrative," a history of strong personalities - such as Robert Sterling Yard, Sigurd Olsen, Anthony Wayne Smith, and Paul Pritchard - all struggling to define their own organization and its goals, and also to develop a protected park system for all citizens to enjoy."--BOOK JACKET. "This book tells not only their story, their motives, and lasting influence, but also the story of the national park themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
National Parks and Conservation Association -- History.
Other Author:
National Parks and Conservation Association.
Contents:
The stage is set -- The founding of the National Parks Association -- Coming of age in the 1920s -- What is-or should be-a national park? -- Surviving the 1930s -- Protecting the parks in wartime -- Battles in the post-war period -- The Sigurd Olson years -- Anthony Wayne Smith takes charge -- The identity crisis 1965-1975 -- A crisis of leadership -- Reaffirming the mission -- NPCA: seventy-five and working.
ISBN:
1560324465 (cloth : alk. paper)