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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"wilderness preservation"”.
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Utilizing Ecological Connectivity in California Desert Wilderness Preservation
<p>The Wilderness Act of 1964 gave the federal land management agencies—the National Park Service, United States Forest Service, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management—the authority to identify, propose, and manage lands as wilderness. Wilderness, once approved by Congress for …
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Wild Practices: Teaching the Value of Wildness
… profound linguistic and ethical implications for wilderness preservation and environmental education. A survey of the ways in which wilderness value is expressed through language reveals much confusion and repression regarding our understanding of the autonomy of nature. By framing discussions of …
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Embedded Within Landscapes: Agrarian Philosophy and Sustainable Agriculture
… Agrarianism are explored as influences for wilderness preservation and the New Agrarian movement. Idealizing a distant wilderness too often means overlooking the ecological and socio-economic environment where people live. Middle landscapes between nature and culture, or between wilderness …
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Challenges for the New West: Economic impacts of wilderness in Nevada's rural counties
Public lands designated as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System are removed from multiple-use management for protection of their natural condition. Opponents argue that "locking up" the natural resources on these lands through designation will undermine the rural economies in the …
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Wilderness rivers: environmentalism, the wilderness movement, and river preservation during the 1960s
Wilderness Rivers explores America's treatment of rivers in the context of the social and political climate of the 1960s. The decades following the Second World War brought about significant changes in the way Americans perceived their environment. Higher levels of affluence and education, …
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Hiker Trash and Trail Dogs: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Human Nature in the Trail Space
… and (3) the relationship between the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) as an idea, and the National Trails System (NTS) as its practice. NSTs provide an ideal backdrop for studying how such connections and relationships are formed and sustained. Using ethnographic methods, this …
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New Trends In Wilderness Designation and The Boulder-White Cloud Mountains, Idaho
This paper examines new emerging trends in wilderness legislation through the lens of the proposed Central Idaho National Forest and Public Land Management Act (H.R. 192). While the bill proposes to designate over 300,000 acres of the Boulder and White Cloud Mountains into the National Wilderness …
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New Trends In Wilderness Designation and The Boulder-White Cloud Mountains, Idaho
This paper examines new emerging trends in wilderness legislation through the lens of the proposed Central Idaho National Forest and Public Land Management Act (H.R. 192). While the bill proposes to designate over 300,000 acres of the Boulder and White Cloud Mountains into the National Wilderness …
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Cultural Ecosystem Services as a Framework for Evaluating Wilderness Values in Public Land Settings
The Wilderness Act of 1964 states the purpose of the National Wilderness Preservation System is "to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness." But, how to accomplish this mandate is a complex task. The application of the …
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The changing American conception of the wilderness as evidenced in the development of the national park system
… the development of our country attitudes toward wilderness have gradually evolved, reflecting ever changing values and concerns. While colonial man viewed wilderness with fear and distaste and believed the worth of such areas was solely dependent on the economic value of its resources, his modern …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… with and against the emerging conservation and wilderness preservation movements of the early twentieth century. My reading of Darkwater’s chapter “Of Beauty and Death” examines Du Bois’s juxtaposition of visits to national parks such as the Grand Canyon with anecdotes about life under Jim Crow, …