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Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness

History

Runte, Alfred

Americas

University Of Nebraska Press

Interpretative history of the national parks system proposing the establishment of national parks evolved out of a need to fulfill cultural rather than environmental needs, and examining the problems of maintaining the character and integrity of parks.

National Parks: The American Experience (Second Edition Revised)

'Runte focuses on the debate over the management of the natural resources of the park, deftly addressing delicate questions of the balance between preservation and use...His work is alive, and even more than his fine research and clear writing, his passion accounts for the wide readership his work enjoys' - "Environmental History Review". 'An angry book ...firmly grounded in scholarship ...[and placing] in historical perspective the decisions that ...[resulted in] overdevelopment and pollution...Read the book. Get angry. Write your congressman!' - "Southern California Quarterly".'The history of Yosemite is symbolic of the environmental history of America itself. Those who read this fine study will come to understand that' - "Utah Historical Quarterly". 'A major work that has application beyond the Yosemite experience. Today, America's national parks are being destroyed by the unrestrained commercialism that Runte chronicles so effectively. His work is stimulating, thought-provoking, and valuable for its insights' - "Nevada Historical Society Quarterly".' A powerful and important book, a critical contribution to Yosemite historiography and ideology at a time when the politicizing of the National Park Service and the vast hordes of visitors pose genuine threats...to the natural environment of Yosemite' - "Western American Literature". 'This analysis is applicable to every park, wilderness, and national treasure; it is a warning for every conservationist to be on guard against the pressures for development' - "Naturalist Review". Alfred Runte, an environmental historian based in Seattle, is the author of "National Parks: The American Experience" (1979; rev. ed., 1987), also published by the University of Nebraska Press.

This third edition includes a new essay on recent environmental issues and concerns, especially as they center on Yellowstone National Park.

National Parks: The American Experience

Trains of Discovery: Western railroads and the national parks

STATED FIRST EDITION.1984 Northland Press oblong softcover(trade paperback). Alfred Runte (National Parks: The American Experience). A look at the relationship between U.S. railroads and western national parks. - Amazon

Trains of discovery: Western railroads and the national parks

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

NORTHLAND PRESS

This updated look at railroads and the national parks includes practical information about touring parks by train, offering an alternate solution to the growing traffic congestion in the parks.

Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks

Roberts Rinehart Publishers

A celebration of the "national forest idea" over the hundred years since the Forest Reserve Act of 1891 permitted the proclamation of forest "reserves" on US public lands. In addition to a retrospective essay by historian Runte, the volume contains an outstanding selection of photographs, paintings, and poster art. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Public Lands, Public Heritage: The National Forest Idea

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

UNKNO

Review\n"John Muir referred to wilderness as going home—a home, Al Runte reminds us, whose foundations were laid in Yosemite. The events and personalities following make for his riveting story of wilderness both betrayed and redeemed. Are the national parks forever? Stout hearts and minds can only hope. Meanwhile, never has that hope, as buttressed by Yosemite’s archetypal history, been in better hands." —Ken Burns, director/producer, The National Parks: America's Best Idea\nPraise for the first edition of Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness"This is a powerful and important book, a critical contribution to Yosemite historiography and ideology at a time when the politicizing of the National Park Service and the vast hordes of visitors pose genuine threats not only to the natural environment of Yosemite but to human emotional and spiritual engagement with those great beings, El Capital, Sugar Pine, Bear, and Coyote." —David Robertson, Western American Literature, May 1991"[Yosemite] is well-written, meticulously researched, and represents a valuable follow-up to the author’s prior work, National Parks: The American Experience (1979). Runte traces the development of Yosemite from its designation as a park in 1864 to the present, with an emphasis on how and why one of America’s most popular parks has deteriorated to little more than a tourist trap. . . . In sum,. Runte has written a major work that has application beyond the Yosemite experience." ―Gary E. Elliott, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Summer 1991"Once again, Alfred Runte has offered up a thorough, well-researched, and well-conceived history of the national parks. Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness is classic Runte. The writing is crisp, the ideas forceful, the tone opinionated, and the message direct. Runte focuses on the debate over the management of the natural resources of the park, deftly addressing the delicate questions of the balance between preservation and use that are at the core of national park policy-making in the U.S." ―Hal K. Rothman, Environmental History Review, Fall 1991"This thoroughly researched, well-written book is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature related to America’s national parks and conflicts in natural resource management. . . . What Runte offers here, written up in a lively and enjoyable style, is a meticulous documentation of the park development and entertainment rationale, as well as a very perceptive analysis of the economic, political, and cultural influences that have shaped the management—and mismanagement—of Yosemite’s unique heritage resources." ―Robert L. Janiskee, Journal of Historical Geography, No,. 2, 1992\nHow should a national park be managed? Among all of the debates affecting America’s national parks, none has proved more enduring. Nor has any park, Alfred Runte reminds us, been in the spotlight more than Yosemite. Its cast of characters is especially rich, including James Mason Hutchings, Galen Clark, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Muir, David Brower, Joseph Grinnell, George M. Wright, and Ansel Adams. Not only was Yosemite the centerpiece of their careers, it was also the wellspring of their passion for nature. Now fully revised and updated, Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness continues their story, from Yosemite’s path-breaking establishment in 1864 as a grant to California, 1890 expansion into a national park, boundary reductions and loss of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, evolution of wildlife protections and science, management practices threatening Yosemite Valley, and the fight for wilderness to the present day.

LYONS PRESS+

Revised with a new epilogue, “We the People,” this fifth edition of National Parks: TheAmerican Experience continues the highly engaging story of how Americans invented and expanded the concept of national parks. A prominent adviser to the Ken Burns Emmy Award-winning documentary, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," Alfred Runte is renowned as the nation's leading historian on the meaning and management of these treasured lands. Further supported with period photographs and now twelve pages of color paintings, National Parks remains a stirring look into the lands that define America, from Yosemite and Yellowstone to wilderness Alaska. This is how we got our parks, and looking to the future, the challenges that remain in preserving them. Are “we the people” still up to the task? Yes, this history advises, but only if we consistently cherish the national unity that our commitment to the parks further demands.

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Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness

National Parks: The American Experience (Second Edition Revised)

Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness

National Parks: The American Experience

Trains of discovery: Western railroads and the national parks

Trains of Discovery: Western railroads and the national parks

Trains of Discovery: Western Railroads and the National Parks

Public Lands, Public Heritage: The National Forest Idea

Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness

National Parks: The American Experience