Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 19,75 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Historic sites
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Author : Aldo Leopold
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2020-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0197500269
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.
Author : Erin Paul Donovan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1467128627
Built by James Everell Henry, the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad (EB&L) is considered to be the grandest and largest logging railroad operation ever built in New England. In 1892, the mountain town of Lincoln, New Hampshire, was transformed from a struggling wilderness enclave to a thriving mill town when Henry moved his logging operation from Zealand. He built houses, a company store, sawmills, and a railroad into the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River watershed to harvest virgin spruce. Despite the departure of the last EB&L log train from Lincoln Woods by 1948, the industry's cut-and-run practices forever changed the future of land conservation in the region, prompting legislation like the Weeks Act of 1911 and the Wilderness Act of 1964. Today, nearly every trail in the Pemigewasset Wilderness follows or utilizes portions of the old EB&L Railroad bed.
Author : Stefanie Payne
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2018-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780692926789
On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.
Author : Patrick Kupper
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1782383743
The history of the Swiss National Park, from its creation in the years before the Great War to the present, is told for the first time in this book. Unlike Yellowstone Park, which embodied close cooperation between state-supported conservation and public recreation, the Swiss park put in place an extraordinarily strong conservation program derived from a close alliance between the state and scientific research. This deliberate reinterpretation of the American idea of the national park was innovative and radical, but its consequences were not limited to Switzerland. The Swiss park became the prime example of a “scientific national park,” thereby influencing the course of national parks worldwide.
Author : United States
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
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Author : Joel Greenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226306496
"In A Natural History of the Chicago Region, Greenberg takes you on a journey that begins with European explorers and settlers and hasn't ended yet. Along the way he introduces you to the physical forces that have shaped the area from southeastern Wisconsin to northern Indiana and Berrien County in Michigan; the various habitat types present in the region and how European settlement has affected them; and the insects, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, and mammals found in presettlement times, then amid the settlers and now amid the skyscrappers. In all, Greenberg chronicles the development of nineteen counties in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin across centuries of ecological, technological, and social transformations."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,66 MB
Release : 1973
Category : National parks and reserves
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Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Forests and forestry
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Publisher :
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2012
Category : National parks and reserves
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