Landscapes, Preservation, and the National Park Ideal
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This chapter addresses the question of how our ideas of what parks are for have changed over time at the national level. It considers why it seems surprising to find farms in parks, and why certain uses of parks are considered “appropriate” or otherwise. These expectations make more sense in the context of understanding the impulse to preserve, its influence on landscapes, and the particular ways that landscape preservation developed in national parks starting in the mid-nineteenth century in places like Yosemite and Yellowstone. The National Park Service (NPS) as a government agency was created nearly fifty years after these first parks, and so it inherited many of the ideals that these iconic landscapes represented.
2009 ◽
Vol 125
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pp. 2715-2715
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2004 ◽
Vol 26
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pp. 2-6
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2017 ◽
Vol 36
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pp. 197-244
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2018 ◽