National Parks: Can “America’s Best Idea” Adjust to the Twenty-first Century?
National Parks are often referred to as “America’s best idea.” Recent scholarship and well-publicized difficulties within the agency have shown that, perhaps inevitably, the National Park Service and the extensive system that it manages, has taken on important characteristics of the society of which...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2017-07-01
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| Series: | Open Rivers |
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https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/national-parks/
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| Summary: | National Parks are often referred to as “America’s best idea.” Recent scholarship and well-publicized difficulties within the agency have shown that, perhaps inevitably, the National Park Service and the extensive system that it manages, has taken on important characteristics of the society of which it is a part, for better or worse. |
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| ISSN: | 2471-190X |