Entrée principale:

Conservation Foundation.

Titre et auteur:

National parks for the future : an appraisal of the national parks as they begin their second century in a changing America.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Conservation Foundation, [1972]

Description:

viii, 254 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 254).
Part 1. Overview and recommendations. A future for the parks: recommendations -- Part 2. The task force reports. Preservation of national park values -- The outdoor recreation role of the National Park Service -- The national park system as an educational and cultural institution -- The national park system and urban America -- The national park system: ways and means -- Part 3. The Yosemite symposium. National park perspectives -- Parks: national and otherwise -- National parks in a changing America -- The symposium reports: a national parks dialogue -- Response to the symposium -- Part 4. Selected project papers. The availability of the park system to urban American -- Park space for urban America -- Status of wilderness studies for units of the National Park System -- The national parks and young America -- The gateways: parks for whom? -- The class imperative: the "greening" and "blueing" of America.

Résumé:

Report of the project undertaken by the Conservation Foundation and resulting recommendations on the occasion of the anniversary of the Yellowstone National Park Act of 1872. Includes reports on park policy by task forces on preservation, outdoor recreation, education and culture, urban aspects, and ways and means; three keynote addresses and oral presentations of discussion leaders at a three day symposium at Yosemite National Park (April 13-15, 1972); and six papers submitted during the course of the project.

Sujet:

National parks and reserves United States.
National parks.
Parcs nationaux États-Unis.
National parks and reserves
United States
natuurreservaten
nature reserves
vs
usa
wildparken
wildlife parks
Nature Conservation
Natuurbescherming

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 7168
Cote: 6850; ID:87-B20907
Statut: Disponible