National Parks Forever - Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence

"Wallace Stegner called the national park system one of the United States' best ideas. That good idea has led to an institution that has grown over the past one hundred years, and the park system now encompasses four hundred areas that host over three hundred million visitors in typical year. Jonathan Jarvis (as a ranger, biologist, and director of the National Park Service in the Obama administration) and Destry Jarvis (as an advocate, policy analyst, and lobbyist) have worked to better the parks for over forty years. They offer here a history of the National Park Service (NPS) and an argument for the NPS to become an independent agency--similar to the Smithsonian Institution and separated from the Department of the Interior. Their reasoning relates to politics, finances, and science, and their proposal aims to safeguard the future of our national parks"--

About the author

Jonathan B. Jarvis was the eighteenth director of the National Park Service, serving from 2009 to 2017. He served for forty years with the NPS as ranger, biologist, and park superintendent in eight national parks.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan B. Jarvis, Jonathan B. Jarvis Jarvis, T. Destry Jarvis, Jarvis Jonathan B., T. Destry Jarvis
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780226819099
• ISBN: 978-0-226-81909-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, environmental science, engineering & technology, United States of America, USA, Conservation of the environment, Science / Environmental Science, Environmental policy & protocols, National parks and nature reserves: general interest, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Environmental policy and protocols