[PDF] The Development Of Policy And Administration Of Forest Service Primitive And Wilderness Areas In The Western United States eBook

Author : Roderick Frazier Nash
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300190387

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A study of America's changing attitude toward wilderness, discussing efforts to protect the Alaskan wilderness, trends in wilderness management, and the international perspective.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,96 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Mount Jefferson Wilderness (Or.)
ISBN :

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Considers. S. 2531, to establish the San Gabriel Wilderness in California as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System; S. 2751, to establish the Mount Jefferson Wilderness in Oregon as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System; and S. 2630, to establish the Washakie Wilderness in Wyoming from the combination of South Absaroka Wilderness and the Stratified Primitive Area as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Author : Mary Koppal
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 2022 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 042970531X

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In a two-year study, the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Developing Strategies for Rangeland Management examined at length the scientific, political, economic, legal, and social issues arising from the BLM's stewardship role. This book, reporting the findings and recommendations of the NAS committee, contains over eighty professional papers presented at workshops designed to assess forage allocation, inventory of rangeland resources, impact of grazing intensity and specialized grazing systems on the use and value of rangeland, manipulative range improvements, application of socioeconomic techniques to range management decision making, and political and legal aspects of range management.

Author : John C. Miles
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0295990392

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Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals of wilderness preservation and recreation. By examining the overlapping and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the park service and the national wilderness preservation system, John C. Miles finds the National Park Service still struggling to deal with an idea that lies at the core of its mission and yet complicates that mission, nearly one hundred years into its existence. The National Park Service's ambivalence about wilderness is traced from its beginning to the turn of the twenty-first century. The Service is charged with managing more wilderness acreage than any government agency in the world and, in its early years, frequently favored development over preservation. The public has perceived national parks as permanently protected wilderness resources, but in reality this public confidence rests on shaky ground. Miles shows how changing conceptions of wilderness affected park management over the years, with a focus on the tension between the goals of providing recreational spaces for the American people and leaving lands pristine and undeveloped for future generations.

Author : Lauren Danner
Publisher : Washington State University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2021-06-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1636820476

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Remote, rugged, and spectacularly majestic, with stunning alpine meadows and jagged peaks that soar beyond ten thousand feet, North Cascades National Park is one of the Pacific Northwest’s crown jewels. Now, in the first full-length account, Lauren Danner chronicles its creation--just in time for the park’s fiftieth anniversary in 2018. The North Cascades range benefited from geographic isolation that shielded its mountains from extensive resource extraction and development. Efforts to establish a park began as early as 1892, but gained traction after World War II as economic affluence sparked national interest in wilderness preservation and growing concerns about the impact of harvesting timber to meet escalating postwar housing demands. As the environmental movement matured, a 1950s Glacier Peak study mobilized conservationists to seek establishment of a national park that prioritized wilderness. Concerned about the National Park Service’s policy favoring development for tourism and the United States Forest Service’s policy promoting logging in the national forests, conservationists leveraged a changing political environment and the evolving environmental values of the natural resource agencies to achieve the goal of permanent wilderness protection. Their grassroots activism became increasingly sophisticated, eventually leading to the compromise that resulted in the 1968 creation of Washington’s magnificent third national park.

Author : Mark Woods
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1460405714

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The concept and values of wilderness, along with the practice of wilderness preservation, have been under attack for the past several decades. In Rethinking Wilderness, Mark Woods responds to seven prominent anti-wilderness arguments. Woods offers a rethinking of the received concept of wilderness, developing a positive account of wilderness as a significant location for the other-than-human value-adding properties of naturalness, wildness, and freedom. Interdisciplinary in approach, the book combines environmental philosophy, environmental history, environmental social sciences, the science of ecology, and the science of conservation biology.