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Places of quiet beauty : parks, preserves, and environmentalism / by Rebecca Conard.
Van Pelt Library QH76.5.I8 C66 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conard, Rebecca.
- Series:
- American land and life series
- The American land and life series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature conservation--Iowa--History.
- Nature conservation.
- Parks--Iowa--History.
- Parks.
- Natural areas--Iowa--History.
- Natural areas.
- Environmentalism--Iowa--History.
- Environmentalism.
- History.
- Iowa.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- Resource protection and public recreation policies have always been subject to the shifting winds of management philosophy governing both national and state parks. Somewhere in the balance, however, parks and preserves have endured as unique places of mind as well as matter. Places of Quiet Beauty allows us to see parks and preserves, forests and wildlife refuges - all those special places that the term "park" conjures up - as measures of our own commitment to caring for the environment. In this broad-ranging book, historian Rebecca Conard examines the complexity of American environmentalism in the twentieth century as manifest in Iowa's state parks and preserves.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [355]-368) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0877455589
- OCLC:
- 35043968
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