Wilderness in National Parks casts light on the complicated
relationship between the National Park Service and its policy goals
of wilderness preservation and recreation. By examining the
overlapping and sometimes contradictory responsibilities of the
park service and the national wilderness preservation system, John
C. Miles finds the National Park Service still struggling to deal
with an idea that lies at the core of its mission and yet
complicates that mission, nearly one hundred years into its
existence. The National Park Service's ambivalence about wilderness
is traced from its beginning to the turn of the twenty-first
century. The Service is charged with managing more wilderness
acreage than any government agency in the world and, in its early
years, frequently favored development over preservation. The public
has perceived national parks as permanently protected wilderness
resources, but in reality this public confidence rests on shaky
ground. Miles shows how changing conceptions of wilderness affected
park management over the years, with a focus on the tension between
the goals of providing recreational spaces for the American people
and leaving lands pristine and undeveloped for future generations.
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