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Two leaders of the National Park Service provide a front-row seat
to the disastrous impact of partisan politics over the past fifty
years-and offer a bold vision for the parks' future. The US
National Parks, what environmentalist and historian Wallace Stegner
called America's "best idea," are under siege. Since 1972, partisan
political appointees in the Department of the Interior have offered
two conflicting views of the National Park Service (NPS): one
vision emphasizes preservation and science-based decision-making,
and another prioritizes economic benefits and privatization. These
politically driven shifts represent a pernicious, existential
threat to the very future of our parks. For the past fifty years,
brothers Jonathan B. and T. Destry Jarvis have worked both within
and outside NPS as leaders and advocates. National Parks Forever
interweaves their two voices to show how our parks must be
protected from those who would open them to economic exploitation,
while still allowing generations to explore and learn in them.
Their history also details how Congress and administration
appointees have used budget and staffing cuts to sabotage NPS's
ability to manage the parks and even threatened their existence.
Drawing on their experience, Jarvis and Jarvis make a bold and
compelling proposal: that it is time for NPS to be removed from the
Department of the Interior and made an independent agency, similar
to the Smithsonian Institution, giving NPS leaders the ability to
manage park resources and plan our parks' protection, priorities,
and future.
Two leaders of the National Park Service provide a front-row seat
to the disastrous impact of partisan politics over the past fifty
years-and offer a bold vision for the parks' future. The US
National Parks, what environmentalist and historian Wallace Stegner
called America's "best idea," are under siege. Since 1972, partisan
political appointees in the Department of the Interior have offered
two conflicting views of the National Park Service (NPS): one
vision emphasizes preservation and science-based decision-making,
and another prioritizes economic benefits and privatization. These
politically driven shifts represent a pernicious, existential
threat to the very future of our parks. For the past fifty years,
brothers Jonathan B. and T. Destry Jarvis have worked both within
and outside NPS as leaders and advocates. National Parks Forever
interweaves their two voices to show how our parks must be
protected from those who would open them to economic exploitation,
while still allowing generations to explore and learn in them.
Their history also details how Congress and administration
appointees have used budget and staffing cuts to sabotage NPS's
ability to manage the parks and even threatened their existence.
Drawing on their experience, Jarvis and Jarvis make a bold and
compelling proposal: that it is time for NPS to be removed from the
Department of the Interior and made an independent agency, similar
to the Smithsonian Institution, giving NPS leaders the ability to
manage park resources and plan our parks' protection, priorities,
and future.
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