Emergency Medical Service in the US National Park Service: A Characterization and Two-Year Review, 2012–2013

The Los Angeles Urban Rangers (LAUR) is one of a growing number of collectives associated with the art world that offer new methods for expressing and performing insights rooted in geographical thought. Borrowing the US National Park Service ranger ‘persona,’ the LAUR demonstrate a number of ways to untangle nature-society issues in cities. The ranger persona is successful in part because of its ability to spatially relocate the affect associated with (supposed) pristine nature to urban places. The article contains a toolkit of programs that the LAUR have employed to re-activate urban space.

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Relief Presentation on US National Park Service Maps

Proceedings of the ICA ◽

10.5194/ica-proc-1-90-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 1-5

Author(s):

Tom Patterson

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

National Park Service ◽

Landscape Heterogeneity ◽

Ongoing Effort ◽

The Us ◽

Park Service ◽

Harpers Ferry ◽

The Media ◽

Diverse Audience ◽

Mode Of Production

This paper examines the evolution of relief presentations on maps developed by Harpers Ferry Center, the media service center of the US National Park Service (NPS). Harpers Ferry Center produces the maps used by park visitors. I will discuss five park maps, each with a distinctive relief style and mode of production. They appear in rough chronological order of their development. Recent relief presentations are generally more detailed, colorful, and realistic than those from earlier years. Changing technology is largely responsible for the different relief styles found on park maps. Some relief treatments today were not possible, or imaginable, in 1977 when the NPS established the brochure program in its modern phase. Landscape heterogeneity is another factor behind the development of different relief styles. With over 400 park sites ranging from the glacial mountains of Alaska to the rolling piedmont of Virginia, a one-style-fits-all approach cannot adequately depict all landscapes. NPS maps serve some 300 million park visitors each year. Our ongoing effort to make understandable maps for this diverse audience has further spurred experiments in relief presentation.

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Fitting the US National Park Service for Change

BioScience ◽

10.1093/biosci/biz071 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 69 (8) ◽

pp. 651-657

Author(s):

Mark W Schwartz ◽

Kent H Redford ◽

Elaine F Leslie

Keyword(s):

Invasive Species ◽

National Park ◽

National Park Service ◽

Active Management ◽

Ecosystem Change ◽

Support Tools ◽

The Us ◽

Management Capacity ◽

Park Service ◽

Management Approaches

Abstract The US National Park Service (NPS), which manages over 85 million acres and over 400 units, contends with myriad external drivers of ecosystem change that threaten parks. Stressors such as invasive species, habitat fragmentation, warming climates and rising sea level, raise the potential that parks will not attain or sustain their congressionally designated missions. Using invasive animals as a focal example of such changes, we suggest the NPS consider increasing active management of resources, participating in cooperative ecoregional management, increasing the use of public participation, and using formal decision support tools. We illustrate how these management approaches are currently underused. Acknowledging that invasive species are but one of a suite of problems that are threatening to overwhelm park management capacity we believe that the approaches we outline generalize to myriad problems facing the NPS.

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Institutionalizing an effective long-term monitoring program in the US National Park Service

Design and Analysis of Long-term Ecological Monitoring Studies ◽

10.1017/cbo9781139022422.029 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 481-497 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Steven G. Fancy ◽

Robert E. Bennetts

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

National Park Service ◽

Monitoring Program ◽

The Us ◽

Park Service ◽

Long Term Monitoring ◽

Term Monitoring

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Exposure and potential effects of pesticides and pharmaceuticals in protected streams of the US National park Service southeast region

The Science of The Total Environment ◽

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135431 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 704 ◽

pp. 135431 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Paul M. Bradley ◽

Kristin M. Romanok ◽

Jeffrey R. Duncan ◽

William A. Battaglin ◽

Jimmy M. Clark ◽

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Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

National Park Service ◽

Southeast Region ◽

The Us ◽

Park Service

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Monument to Defeat: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in American Culture and Society

Cultures of Commemoration ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197264669.003.0008 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

LAWRENCE A. TRITLE

Keyword(s):

Collective Memory ◽

Vietnam Veterans ◽

National Park ◽

National Park Service ◽

American Culture ◽

Washington Dc ◽

Vietnam Veterans Memorial ◽

The Us ◽

Park Service

Monument or memorial? Defeat or withdrawal? The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC pays tribute to more than 58,000 Americans who died fighting an unpopular war. Yet today the ‘Wall’, as it is known to most Americans, is the most visited site managed by the US National Park Service. Weekend visitors will happen upon an almost festive place as thousands of people pass by looking at the names – what do they think, imagine? This chapter discusses not only the story and controversy behind the building of the ‘Wall’, but also how it reflects the collective memory of a society and its values, and how these are constructed.

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