Yosemite

by Runte, Alfred

• ISBN13: 9780803238947
• ISBN10: 0803238940
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Among all of the debates affecting America's national parks, the most enduring-and most intense-is where to draw the line between preservation and use. This is an account of that classic confrontation, as told from the perspective of natural resources and environment. The focus is Yosemite, where debating environmental change is now a century and a quarter old. Yosemite, as the oldest park of its kind, has the longest history of modification.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Incomparable Valley	p. 5
First Park	p. 13
Prophecy and Change	p. 28
National Park	p. 45
The Commission, the Cavalry, and the Natural Resource	p. 57
Losing Ground	p. 67
Changing of the Guard	p. 83
University of the Wilderness	p. 100
The Science of Sanctuary	p. 119
Sanctuary on Trial	p. 135
The Science of Sanctuary Redefined	p. 160
Self-Interest and Environment	p. 181
Management Adrift	p. 201
Epilogue: Reassessment and Future	p. 219
Notes	p. 229
A Note on the Sources	p. 255
Index	p. 263
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