The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks (review)

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 319-319
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bush
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Camping Trip

Introduction: A Long Way from Earth Day

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Otis L. Graham
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Soil Conservation ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Theodore Roosevelt ◽  
Conservation Movement ◽  
Silent Spring ◽  
Earth Day ◽  
Gifford Pinchot

The third Conservation movement was summoned to life between Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring (1962) and the Santa Barbara Oil Spill at the end of the movement-spawning Sixties, and would be called by a more nature-evoking term—environmentalism. Looking back from there, those of us with some historical memory were struck by how far we had come from the first Conservation crusade led by John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gifford Pinchot, or the second led by FDR in the 1930s. In those early days they thought the problem was loss of forests, soil erosion, water and air pollution, and that the solutions were National Parks and National Forests watched over by civil servants in their gray or tan-brown uniforms, along with a Soil Conservation Service for farmers.

Walks, Tracks and Trails of New South Wales

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick Stone
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Coastal Environments ◽  
Ancient Lake ◽  
Ghost Town ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Camping Trip ◽  
Coastal Cliffs ◽  
First Time

For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual. They are located in national parks, coastal parks, state forests, conservation reserves, historic parks and local government and public easements. Other routes follow state highways, minor roads, coastal cliffs, old gold routes, or pass bushranger haunts and back roads linking towns and historical features. Most routes do not require specialist navigation or bushcraft skills, and vary in length from a 45-minute stroll to a 4-day, 65-kilometre camping trip. Walks, Tracks and Trails of New South Wales highlights the best the state has to offer, from an outback ghost town and ancient lake beds, to Australia’s highest mountain, coastal environments and World Heritage rainforests. Easy-to-interpret maps are included to help you navigate, and the book’s size makes it convenient to bring with you on your adventures.

scholarly journals John Muir

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen M. MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Core Values ◽  
First Century ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
City Parks ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Nature Preservation ◽  
Do So

A century after John Muir’s death, Glen MacDonald examines his legacy and argues that while Muir’s message of the value of wilderness to society might need to evolve for a twenty-first century audience, it is still relevant. For instance, Muir believed in the transformative power of visiting remote wildernesses such as Yosemite and urged everyone to do so, and his conception of nature preservation as preserving nature in a specific moment in time is now understood to be misguided. His specific prescriptions for relating to the natural world now seem old-fashioned, but his core values and his passion for getting Californians out in nature is just as important today, whether those natural places are national parks or city parks.

Milestones in California History: John Muir and the California National Parks

1990 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
California History ◽  
John Muir

John Muir Wilderness and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks Wilderness: 1990 visitor survey data

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan E. Watson ◽  
Michael J. Niccolucci ◽  
Daniel R. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
National Parks ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Visitor Survey

The National Parks

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Worster
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Ecological Integrity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sacred Places ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Park Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Federal Initiatives ◽  
Historical Sites

The national parks of the United States have been one of the country’s most popular federal initiatives, and popular not only within the nation but across the globe. The first park was Yellowstone, established in 1872, and since then almost sixty national parks have been added, along with hundreds of monuments, protected rivers and seashores, and important historical sites as well as natural preserves. In 1916 the parks were put under the National Park Service, which has managed them primarily as scenic treasures for growing numbers of tourists. Ecologically minded scientists, however, have challenged that stewardship and called for restoration of parks to their natural conditions, defined as their ecological integrity before white Europeans intervened. The most influential voice in the history of park philosophy remains John Muir, the California naturalist and Yosemite enthusiast and himself a proto-ecologist, who saw the parks as sacred places for a modern nation, where reverence for nature and respect for science might coexist and where tourists could be educated in environmental values. As other nations have created their own park systems, similar debates have occurred. While parks may seem like a great modern idea, this idea has always been embedded in cultural and social change—and subject to struggles over what that “idea” should be.

Rabindranath Tagore: The Deep-Rooted Environmentalist and The Origins of Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Charles Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
National Parks ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
The Public ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
Indian State ◽  
The Uk

The opening years of the twentieth century witnessed rising public disquiet about evident environmental degradation and the ever more obvious loss of important habitats. In the United States, following the personal intervention of President Theodore Roosevelt, Congress passed an act in 1906 to establish a protected inventory of national parks and forests. A year later the UK Parliament passed an act to establish the National Trust. Following the well trailed campaigns of self-anointed environmentalists such as John Muir and Octavia Hill, the protection of vulnerable landscapes appeared for the first time on the public policy agenda. Against this background of rising awareness of the unfettered consequences of economic growth, a similar concern can be detected for the plight of rural communities in the Indian state of Bengal, largely as a result of the personal involvement – in both word and deed – of Rabindranath Tagore. It can be argued further that Tagore’s innate empiricism as a result of this growing awareness, anticipated the discourse that would lead eventually to the World Conservation Strategy published by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in 1980. It was followed by the Brundtland Report (1987) Our Common Future.

The role of glaciers and glacier research in the development of U. S. national parks

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-358
Author(s):  
Denny M. Capps
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
National Parks ◽  
John Muir ◽  
Glacier Bay ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

ABSTRACT U.S. national parks and glacier research are inextricably linked. They are also an integral part of our history and cultural identity. For example, John Muir studied glaciers at Yosemite, Glacier Bay, and other future park areas. He measured glacier movement and recognized signs of past glaciations. Most U.S. glacier research now occurs in national parks due to the areas that they protect. Of the approximately 75,000 km2 of glacier coverage in the U.S., only 683 km2 lies outside of Alaska. Glaciers covering an area of 43,745 km2 are wholly or partly enclosed within nine Alaskan parks. 29,041 km2 occur in Wrangell-St. Elias alone. The relationship of national parks and glaciers is not mere chance. As Robert Sterling Yard said, “Geology is the anatomy of scenery”. Glaciers are responsible for the scenery and habitat of many national parks from Glacier to Glacier Bay. Here, I highlight past contributions from glacier researchers in national parks and how glaciers have shaped the foundations of many national parks.

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