Mojave lands : interpretive planning and the national preserve / Elisabeth M. Hamin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamin, Elisabeth M., 1961-

Series:

Center books on contemporary landscape design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. National Park Service--History--20th century.

United States.

United States. National Park Service.

Deserts--Law and legislation--California--History--20th century.

Deserts.

Wilderness areas--Law and legislation--California--History--20th century.

Wilderness areas.

Environmental law--United States--History--20th century.

Environmental law.

Public lands--California--Management--History--20th century.

Public lands.

Management.

History.

Wilderness areas--Law and legislation.

Deserts--Law and legislation.

Mojave National Preserve (Calif.)--Management.

Mojave National Preserve (Calif.).

Mojave National Preserve (Calif.)--Environmental conditions.

California.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Controversy inevitably accompanies attempts at land protection, even in cases of large, uninhabited, economically marginal locations. In 1994, for example, the California Desert Protection Act created the Mojave National Preserve, the third largest national park in the lower 48 states. The act transferred three million acres of southern California desert from the Bureau of Land Management to the National Park Service. As a result, explains Elisabeth M. Hamin, the National Park Service became a multiple-use manager, balancing its official mission of environmental protection with oversight of such activities as hunting, ranching and mining. In this work, Hamin explains how this new role came about. Drawing on interviews with people on various sides of the issue - from mining lobbyists to local ecotourism operators, legislators to gun advocates - she shows how the differing parties argued and compromised over land protection. From their success, Hamin derives lessons for re-imagining national parks to achieve broadly shared goals.

Contents:

A solitary

but not lonely

place

Parks, preserves, and land management bureaus

Legislating and designating the preserve

Narratives of the preserve debate: my way or the highway

Of miners, cowboys and the NRA

Alternative visions, alternative futures

Policy directions

A proposal for interpretive planning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0801871212

OCLC:

49312447