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Mapping America's National Parks : Preserving Our Natural and Cultural Treasures by US National Park Service; Ken Burns; Dayton Duncan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Get an insider look at the US National Park Service to see how they use maps and geospatial technology to protect and manage America's national parks. Maps easily cap your first greeting upon arrival at a national park, allowing you to visualize its vastness, plan your trip, and keep a compact souvenir of your visit. But for the US National Park Service (NPS), maps do more than provide guidance and navigation. Maps help the NPS protect visitors and natural resources. They help manage fires, both unplanned and prescribed. They provide a basis for preserving cultural resources, such as archaeological sites and historic buildings, and for establishing needed facilities, infrastructure, and transportation. The maps in Mapping America's National Parks: Preserving Our Natural and Cultural Treasures are not only beautiful representations of special places. Within the maps are layers of geographic information—a bevy of research and science—that the NPS uses to perform these myriad essential services and to ultimately fulfill their mission. With over 240 full-color maps and photographs of national parks, monuments, battlefields, historic sites, lakeshores, seashores, scenic rivers and tra

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Author

US National Park Service; Ken Burns; Dayton Duncan

Publisher

Esri Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781589485471

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, United States Of America Travel, Lifestyle