PLACES OF QUIET BEAUTY by Rebecca Conard, Wayne Franklin (Foreword) ( 9780877455585 )

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Title:

PLACES OF QUIET BEAUTY
PARKS, PRESERVES, AND ENVIRONMENTALISM

By:

Rebecca Conard, Wayne Franklin (Foreword)

Format:

Paperback

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0877455589

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9780877455585

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Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS

Pub. date:

1 January, 1997

Series:

American Land & Life Series

Pages:

382

Synopsis:

Resource protection and public recreation policies have always been subject to the shifting winds of management philosophy governing both national and state parks. Somewhere in the balance, however, parks and preserves have endured as unique places of mind as well as matter. "Places of Quiet Beauty" allows us to see parks and preserves, forests and wildlife refuges all those special places that the term park conjures up as measures of our own commitment to caring for the environment. In this broad-ranging book, historian Rebecca Conard examines the complexity of American environmentalism in the twentieth century as manifest in Iowa's state parks and preserves."

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University of Iowa Press

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