scholarly journals Relief Presentation on US National Park Service Maps

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.

A Work in Progress Development of United States National Park Service Museum Collection Significance Evaluation Criteria

Collections ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Racine ◽  
Greg McDonald ◽  
Ted Fremd ◽  
Ted Weasma ◽  
J.W. Bayless ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Museum Collection ◽  
Ongoing Effort ◽  
Final Development ◽  
Agency Support ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Over Time

This article describes the National Park Service's (NPS) progress in an ongoing effort to develop museum collection significance criteria for its geology, paleontology, biology, archeology, ethnography/ethnology, history, and archival collections. The goal is to create sets of significance criteria that are practical, flexible, recognize the associative value of the NPS's collections, and provide continuity and context for the stewardship of collections over time. Effective significance criteria will increase the intellectual understanding of collections; inform and record collection acquisition and deaccession; and assist in management decisions related to collections. This is an immense undertaking complicated by differences among disciplines and a large geographic scope. The significance criteria effort requires agency support through a national staff coordinator and funding for the final development and implementation phases.

The Los Angeles Urban Rangers: actualizing geographic thought

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Bauch ◽  
Emily Eliza Scott
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Art World ◽  
Geographic Thought ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Urban Places

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.

scholarly journals A History of the National Park Service: Through the Lens of Legislation

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Boerner
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Park Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Resistance Movement

Many are aware of the media blackout that happened earlier this year as President Donald Trump took office. While several governmental agencies where affected, the order given to the Department of Interior, which the National Park Service is under, sparked an unprecedented social media backlash. Social media accounts named Alt National Park Service started popping up on Twitter and Facebook. While there is some question as to whether these social media accounts were actually run by employees of the National Park Service, there is no question that the National Park Service suddenly became major conversation. Whether people saw this as an unwanted act of rebellion, or as the start of a resistance movement to stand behind, the National Park Service was being talked about by many people.

scholarly journals Fitting the US National Park Service for Change

BioScience ◽  
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.

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 704 ◽  
pp. 135431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul M. Bradley ◽  
Kristin M. Romanok ◽  
Jeffrey R. Duncan ◽  
William A. Battaglin ◽  
Jimmy M. Clark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
Southeast Region ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service

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

2012 ◽  
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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