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What Has Happened To Our National Parks? Overcrowding And Commercialization Are Commonplace, And With The Increase In Visitation Has Come Not Only Congestion But Crime. Yet Visitor Enjoyment Seems To Be A Higher Priority Of Those Who Manage The Parks Than The Protection And Perpetuation Of Natural Systems. How Could This Have Happened? Michael Frome, One Of The Most Outspoken And Highly Regarded Observers Of Our National Parks, Here Shows How The Original Mission Of The National Park Service Has Been Undermined By Politicization And Bureaucratization. Regreening The National Parks Tells How The Park Service Has Been Transformed From A Professional To A Political Agency And In The Process Has Betrayed Its Own Values By Emphasizing Recreation And Short-order Wilderness Served Like Fast Food Rather Than The Preservation Of The Nation's Natural Heritage. Frome Has Drawn On Both Official Documents And Personal Interviews To Examine The Policies--and Personalities--behind The Scenes At The National Park Service. He Cites Instances Of Personnel Being Forbidden To Criticize Public Policy In Which They Found A Conflict With Conservation Principles, And Contends That, As The Park Service Has

Author

Frome, Michael

Publisher

Tucson: University of Arizona Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816509560

Subjects

Economics, Agriculture, Nature