Author: Wellman, J. Douglas
Title: Wildland Recreation Policy : An Introduction
Description: New York, John Wiley, (1987). Orig.boards. 24x16cm, xi, 284 pp. Textual Photos. Minor rubbing, slight scratch to rear cover, VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction; Roots of Policy: Utilitarian Conservation; Early American Attitudes Toward Nature; Early Land Use Policies; George Perkins Marsh; Roots of Policy: Romantic Preservation: The Intellectual Framework for Nature Appreciation; Emerson & Thoreau; American Nationalism; Parks Proposed & Parks Realized; Frederick Law Olmsted; Institutional Origins: The Forest Service: Antecedents of the Forest Service; Gifford Pinchot & The Progressive Conservation Movement; Endgame for Progressive Conservationists; Institutional Origins: The National Park Service: Yellowstone National Park; Management of the Early National Parks; John Muir; Schism in the Conservation Movement: The Hetch Hetchy Battle; Creation of the National Park Service; Emergence of Wilderness Policy: Ideas Behind the Wilderness Movement; Wilderness & The Forest Service; Early Steps Toward Wilderness Policy in the Forest Service; Aldo Leopold; Wildland Recreation in the 1930s; Robert Marshall; Wilderness Policy from World War II to the Present: The Echo Park Controversy; Park Service & Forest Service Threats to Preservation; The Drive for a Wilderness Act; Passage of the Wilderness Act; New Threats to Preservation; The Forest Service Wilderness Review; The Alaska Lands Issue: Wilderness Expansion; Department of the Interior Lands; Recent Policy Developments in the National Park Service: Erosion of NPS Self- Determination; The Modern Urban National Parks; Yosemite Revisited; Management: Today's Policy Frontier: Current Issues in Wildland Recreation Management; User Fees;

Keywords: Wilderness Conservation, Wildland Management, Recreation Policy, National Park, Forest Service, Parks, Conservationism, Land Use,