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Wildland Recreation Policy An Introduction

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ISBN-10: 1575242435

ISBN-13: 9781575242439

Edition: 2nd 2004

Authors: John D. Wellman, Dennis B. Propst

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List price: $49.50
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
About This Book
Value of Wildland Recreation in America
Wildland Recreation as Public Policy
Notes
The Policy Process
The Nature of Policy
An Ongoing Debate--the Script
The Importance of Ideas
Shaping Wildland Recreation Policy--the Players
Setting the Stage for Policy
Producing Policy
Notes
Roots of Policy: Utilitarian Conservation
Early Attitudes Toward Nature
Early Land USE Policies
George Perkins Marsh
Notes
Roots of Policy: Romantic Preservation
Introduction
The Intellectual Framework for Nature Appreciation
Emerson and Thoreau
American Nationalism
Parks Proposed and Parks Realized
Frederick Law Olmsted
Notes
Institutional Origins: The Forest Service
Antecedents of the Forest Service
Gifford Pinchot and the Progressive Conservation Movement
Endgame for the Progressive Conservationists
The Role of Women in the Progressive Conservation Movement
Notes
Institutional Origins: The National Park Service
Yellowstone National Park
Management of the Early National Parks
John Muir
Schism in the Conservation Movement: The Hetch Hetchy Battle
Muir's Impact on the Preservation Movement
Creation of the National Park Service
Notes
Origins of Wilderness Policy
Ideas Behind the Wilderness Movement
Wilderness and the Forest Service
Aldo Leopold
The 1930s, An Era of Intense Agency Competition
Robert Marshall
Notes
Wilderness Policy From World War II to the Present
The Echo Park Controversy
Park Service and Forest Service Threats to Preservation
The Drive for a Wilderness Act
Passage of the Wilderness Act
Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE)
The Eastern Wilderness Act
New Forest Service Legislation
The Endangered American Wilderness Act
Rare II
Roadless Area Debate Continues
Notes
Wildland Recreation Policy in the Urban Setting
Erosion of NPS Self-Determination
The Urban National Parks
Forest Service Urban Programs
Conclusions
Notes
Management: Today's Policy Frontier
Current Issues in Wildland Recreation Management
Yosemite Revisited
Management Issues Involving External Threats
Management Issues Involving Internal Threats
Conclusions
Notes
Management: Realities of Policy Implementation
Policy-Management Interactions
Management Frameworks and Processes
Paying for Wildland Recreation
Public Participation and Collaborative Management
Conclusions
Notes
Conclusions
The Policy Process
The Management Response
Notes
Applicable Laws, Regulations, and Executive Orders, Final Yosemite Valley Plan/Seis (2000)
Bibliography
Index