National Parks: Can “America’s Best Idea” Adjust to the Twenty-first Century?

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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Main Author: Patrick Nunnally
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2017-07-01
Series:Open Rivers
Subjects:
engagement
public programs
united states
Online Access: https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/national-parks/
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spelling doaj-0e86dc6720d44d58acd61ec4290e1b2a2021-08-03T01:04:26ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingOpen Rivers2471-190X2017-07-01Issue Seven : Summer 2017https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.3161National Parks: Can “America’s Best Idea” Adjust to the Twenty-first Century?Patrick NunnallyNational 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. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/national-parks/ engagementpublic programsunited states
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description 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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public programs
united states
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