Islands under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats

by John C. Freemuth

Book Overview

If the Park Service can't--or won't--protect our national parks, who will? It's high time we figure that out, notes John Freemuth. Saddled from the beginning with a contradictory mandate--to promote recreational use of parks yet preserve them for future generations--the Park Service has always walked an administrative tightrope. But within the last few years a new kind of threat has appeared, and the Park Service finds itself in an even more precarious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700606270
• ISBN13: 9780700606276
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"