Stones River National Battlefield and Cemetery, General Management Plan (GMP) and Development Concept Plan
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 1980
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 1980
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Page : 145 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 1980*
Category : Historic sites
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Author : United States. National Park Service
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 1988
Category : National parks and reserves
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Author : United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center
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Page : 176 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Battlefields
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Author : United States. National Park Service
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Page : 179 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Environmental impact analysis
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 15,65 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Environmental impact analysis
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Author : Lary M. Dilsaver
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Desert conservation
ISBN : 9781938086465
National parks are different from other federal lands in the United States. Beginning in 1872 with the establishment of Yellowstone, they were largely set aside to preserve for future generations the most spectacular and inspirational features of the country, seeking the best representative examples of major ecosystems such as Yosemite, geologic forms such as the Grand Canyon, archaeological sites such as Mesa Verde, and scenes of human events such as Gettysburg. But one type of habitat--the desert--fell short of that goal in American eyes until travel writers and the Automobile Age began to change that perception. As the Park Service began to explore the better-known Mojave and Colorado deserts of southern California during the 1920s for a possible desert park, many agency leaders still carried the same negative image of arid lands shared by many Americans--that they are hostile and largely useless. But one wealthy woman--Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, from Pasadena--came forward, believing in the value of the desert, and convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish a national monument that would protect the unique and iconic Joshua trees and other desert flora and fauna. Thus was Joshua Tree National Monument officially established in 1936, with the area later expanded in 1994 when it became Joshua Tree National Park. Since 1936, the National Park Service and a growing cadre of environmentalists and recreationalists have fought to block ongoing proposals from miners, ranchers, private landowners, and real estate developers who historically have refused to accept the idea that any desert is suitable for anything other than their consumptive activities. To their dismay, Joshua Tree National Park, even with its often-conflicting land uses, is more popular today than ever, serving more than one million visitors per year who find the desert to be a place worthy of respect and preservation. Distributed for George Thompson Publishing
Author : G. F. Richings
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Page : 590 pages
File Size : 13,15 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Social Science
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2011
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Author : Timothy B. Smith
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
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The 1890s, argues Timothy B. Smith in his new book, represented the climax of battlefield preservation in America. But what makes this decade so important? This decade was the perfect time for the establishment of these national parks. Five Civil War battlegrounds--at Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Shiloh, Antietam, and Vicksburg--were commemorated as national sites during this time. Just past the bitterness and racial tensions of Reconstruction and prior to the explosive growth brought on by the Second Industrial Revolution, the time was right for the war's veterans from both sides to come together, in a spirit of reconciliation and brotherhood, to lead the efforts to open the parks. As yet unmarred by development, these battlefield sites were preserved mostly intact, just how the veterans would have remembered them. To date, they represent the country's finest preserved battlefields. Smith's book is the first to look at the process of battlefield reservation as a whole. He focuses on how each of these sites was established and the important individuals--the congressmen, the former soldiers, the veteran commissioners--who were the catalysts for the creation of these parks. The Golden Age of Battlefield Preservation is a watershed book about an essential period in the history of battlefield preservation and will be of interest to any reader who wishes to have a better understanding how such preservation efforts were initiated. Timothy B. Smith is the author of This Great Battlefield of Shiloh: History, Memory, and the Establishment of a Civil War National Military Park and The Untold Story of Shiloh: The Battle and the Battlefield. He is a former park ranger at the Shiloh National Military Park and now teaches at the University of Tennessee at Martin.