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Get an insider look at the US National Park Service to see how they
use maps and geospatial technology to protect and manage America's
national parks. Maps easily cap your first greeting upon arrival at
a national park, allowing you to visualize its vastness, plan your
trip, and keep a compact souvenir of your visit. But for the US
National Park Service (NPS), maps do more than provide guidance and
navigation. Maps help the NPS protect visitors and natural
resources. They help manage fires, both unplanned and prescribed.
They provide a basis for preserving cultural resources, such as
archaeological sites and historic buildings, and for establishing
needed facilities, infrastructure, and transportation. The maps in
Mapping America's National Parks: Preserving Our Natural and
Cultural Treasures are not only beautiful representations of
special places. Within the maps are layers of geographic
information-a bevy of research and science-that the NPS uses to
perform these myriad essential services and to ultimately fulfill
their mission. With over 240 full-color maps and photographs of
national parks, monuments, battlefields, historic sites,
lakeshores, seashores, scenic rivers and trails, and more, Mapping
America's National Parks takes you on a journey through our most
treasured locations and shows how geographic information system
(GIS) software helps the NPS keep the balance between park
enjoyment and preservation. Through stories told by their own
staff, discover how GIS helps the NPS: provide security for
individual wildlife species, members of a crowd at a peaceful
demonstration, and entire ecosystems; analyze where people most
likely are stranded, where they are least likely stranded, and
distribute assets in search and rescue operations; develop
strategic plans, budgets, and protection for fire management; and
share intelligence on wildlife trafficking, zoonotic diseases,
field medicine protocols, and more. Go behind the scenes to see how
mapping and geospatial analysis support the full range of NPS
natural resource stewardship and science activities. With NPS
planning aided by geospatial technology, future generations of park
visitors-your children and their children-will be able to enjoy our
national parks for years to come.
One hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark's "Voyage of
Discovery" (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen
camper to retrace their steps. "Out West" is an account of three
separate journeys: Lewis and Clark's epic adventure through
uncharted wilderness; Duncan's retracing of the historic trail, now
in various ways tamed, paved, and settled; and the journey of the
American West in the years in between. Readers traveling with
Duncan will encounter the people who inhabit today's West: farmers
and ranchers, cowboys and mountain men, Native Americans, residents
of dying small towns, city dwellers who have survived cycles of
boom and bust. From the Gateway Arch in St. Louis to the Oregon
coast, readers will be treated to a landscape as variously
impressive as its people.
A. B. Guthrie Jr. is best known for his historical fiction; his
classic novel The Way West earned him a Pulitzer Prize. Guthrie had
the ability to create memorable yet believable characters, was
skillful in his use of narration and point of view, and possessed a
notable flair for describing the landscape of the American West. It
is unsurprising, perhaps, that Guthrie also had a deft talent for
short fiction. The Big It and Other Stories collects his diverse
shorter tales, written between 1946 and 1960. Often relying on a
few recorded facts as a springboard for his lively and sympathetic
imagination, Guthrie explores many of his favorite themes-communion
between man and nature, the test of manhood, resilience in the face
of new or dangerous situations-with a sure and steady hand that
always holds the reader's interest. Full of humor and excitement,
The Big It and Other Stories showcases Guthrie's art in a new genre
and spotlights the love for the West and for westerners that is the
hallmark of his writing.
Suffering from a case of "road fever" brought on by prolonged
exposure to the journals of Lewis and Clark, Dayton Duncan has
retraced the Corps of Discovery's route from Saint Louis to the
Pacific and back again four different times during the past twenty
years--to say nothing of his countless additional trips to
landmarks along their route. In sweltering summer heat and in
temperatures 45 degrees below zero, he watched yellow moons rise
and heard buffalo thunder; navigated against the Missouri River's
relentless current and stood on its surface, frozen solid
overnight; canoed a dozen times through Montana's magnificent White
Cliffs (Lewis's "seens of visionary inchantment"); and read the
journals by candlelight in the expedition's fort on the Pacific
coast. Along the way, Duncan wrote the essays that make up this
book, essays that guide the reader on a journey of discovery along
the trail of Lewis and Clark.
More a revisiting than a retelling of the story of the Corps of
Discovery, Duncan's book reintroduces us to people and places along
the trail, reflects on events large and small that occurred during
the expedition, and offers constant--and constantly
entertaining--insights into why, two centuries later, the saga of
Lewis and Clark continues to exert such a powerful hold on our
national imagination.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark did not embark on their epic
trek across the continent alone-dozens of men and eventually one
woman accompanied them. The towering triumph of the Lewis and Clark
expedition is due in no small part to the skill and fortitude of
such men as Sgt. Charles Floyd, the only expedition member to die;
Sgt. Patrick Gass, who lived until 1870, the last surviving member
of the expedition; Sgt. Nathaniel Hale Pryor, husband to an Osage
woman; and York, Clark's slave, who was freed after the expedition.
The men who were instrumental to the success of the Lewis and
Clark expedition come to life in this volume. Through the aid of a
detailed biographical roster and a composite diary of the
expedition that highlights the roles and actions of the
expedition's members, Charles G. Clarke affords readers precious
glimpses of those who have long stood in the shadows of Lewis and
Clark. Disagreements and achievements, ailments and addictions, and
colorful personalities and daily tasks are all vividly rendered in
these pages. The result is an unforgettable portrait of the corps
of diverse characters who undertook a remarkable journey across the
western half of the continent almost two hundred years ago.
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