Main entry:

Ise, John, 1885-1969.

Title & Author:

Our national park policy : a critical history / by John Ise ; decorative sketches by Kate Lord.

Publication:

Baltimore : Published for Resources for the Future by Johns Hopkins Press, ©1961.

Description:

xiii, 701 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Maps on end papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Marion Clawson -- I. The early parks : 1872-1916. 1. Yellowstone Park -- 2. Yosemite Park -- 3. Sequoia and General Grant Parks -- 4. Mount Rainier Park -- 5. Crater Lake Park -- 6. Three interior national parks : Wind Cave, Sullys Hill and Platt -- 7. The antiquities act : the national monuments -- 8. Mesa Verde Park -- 9. Glacier Park -- II. The National Park Service : 1916-1959. 10. The Mather administration, 1917-1928 : Rocky Mountain Park and Hawaii Park -- 11. The Mather administration, 1917-1928 : Lassen Volcanic Park, Mount McKinley Park, Grand Canyon Park, Acadia Park, and Zion Park -- 12. The Mather administration, 1917-1928 : Hot Springs Park, Bryce Canyon Park, Great Smoky Mountains Park, Shenandoah Park, Mammoth Cave Park -- 13. The Mather administration, 1917-1928 : boundary revisions, new national monuments, state parks -- 14. The Mather administration, 1917-1928 : attacks on the parks -- 15. The Albright administration, 1929-1933 : Grand Teton Park, Carlsbad Caverns Park, Isle Royale Park -- 16. The Albright administration, 1929-1933 : new national monuments, historical parks, transfers to the Park Service -- 17. The Cammerer administration, 1933-1940 : historical parks sites, recreation areas, Everglades Park -- 18. The Cammerer administration, 1933-1940 : Big Bend Park, Olympic Park -- 19. The Cammerer administration, 1933-1940 : Kings Canyon Park, new national monuments, Mount Rushmore -- 20. The Cammerer administration, 1933-1940 : parkways, seashore areas, problems of park administration -- 21. The Drury administration, 1940-1951 : the war and postwar years, the tourist invasion -- 22. The Drury administration, 1940-1951 : threats to the parks : dams, mining, state interests, mechanized traffic -- 23. The Drury administration, 1940-1951 : Jackson Hole -- 24. The Wirth administration, 1951- : Virgin Islands Park, seashore areas, Petrified Forest Park, City of Refuge National Historical Park -- 25. The Wirth administration, 1951- : financial and concession problems, overcrowded parks, Mission 66, current Park Service activities -- 26. The Wirth administration, 1951- : dinosaur dams and other threats to the park system -- III. Special park problems. 27. Wildlife -- 28. National Park concessions -- 29. Financing the parks -- 30. Wilderness areas -- 31. National parks in other countries.

Subject:

United States. National Park Service History.
United States. National Park Service.
National parks and reserves United States.
National parks and reserves Government policy United States.
Parcs nationaux États-Unis.
Parcs nationaux Politique gouvernementale États-Unis.
National parks and reserves.
National parks and reserves Government policy.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Clawson, Marion, 1905-1998, writer of foreword.
Lord, Kate, 1896-1960, illustrator.
Resources for the Future.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 115919
Call No.: ID SB482.A1.I75; ID:96-B2928
Status: Available