Places of quiet beauty : parks, preserves, and environmentalism / Rebecca Conard and Wayne Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conard, Rebecca, author.

Franklin, Wayne, author.

Series:

American Land & Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature conservation--Iowa--History.

Nature conservation.

Parks--Iowa--History.

Parks.

Natural areas--Iowa--History.

Natural areas.

Environmentalism--Iowa--History.

Environmentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Prologue; 1. Conservation Parks; 2. Pammel's Way; 3. Reshaping Park and Conservation Goals in the 1920s; 4. Toward a Resource Agency: The Twenty-five-Year Conservation Plan; 5. Seeking Balance; 6. The Center Does Not Hold; 7. The Lightning Rod Decades; Epilogue; Appendix: State Lands in Parks and Preserves, 1918-1996; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781587290398

1587290391

OCLC:

44960332