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Crimes against nature
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these \"crimes\" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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A Wild Idea
A Wild Idea shares the
complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency
(APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North
Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as
large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of
sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation
of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the
APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of
political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of
violence.
The North Country's environmental movement started among a small
group of hunters and hikers, rose on a huge wave of public concern
about pollution that crested in the early 1970s, and overcame
multiple obstacles to \"save\" the Adirondacks. Edmondson shows how
the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit
planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had
never been attempted before. The team and the politicians who
supported them worked around the clock to draft two visionary
land-use plans and turn them into law. But they also made mistakes,
and their strict regulations were met with determined opposition
from local landowners who insisted that private property is
private.
A Wild Idea is based on in-depth interviews with five
dozen insiders who are central to the story. Their observations
contain many surprising and shocking revelations. This is a rich,
exciting narrative about state power and how it was imposed on
rural residents. It shows how the Adirondacks were \"saved,\" and
also why that campaign sparked a passionate rebellion.
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Gardens of the High Line : elevating the nature of modern landscapes
\"Before it was restored, the High Line was an untouched, abandoned landscape overgrown with wildflowers. Today it is much more than that: it's a central plaza, a cultural center, a walkway, and a green retreat in a bustling city that is free for all to enjoy. But above all else, it is a beautiful, dynamic garden with plantings designed by Piet Oudolf ... [This book] offers an in-depth view into the planting designs, plant palette, and maintenance of this landmark achievement\"--Amazon.com.
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An updated survey of freshwater fishes within Letchworth State Park and surrounding area's of the Genesee River
The goal of this study was to gather information about freshwater fishes in Letchworth State Park (42.615275° N, −77.992825° W), a portion of New York State‐owned land located in the Genesee River Watershed that lacks known data about its fish diversity. Fish collection took place between 2017 and 2019 in the Genesse River upstream and downstream of the falls using electrofishing, gill, hoop, and seine netting. This was the first attempt at a comprehensive survey of this portion of the river, which allowed for a baseline to be established regarding fish biodiversity in the region. The updated total number of species found in this portion of the Genesee River was 25, 22 of which were newly identified downstream of the falls in Letchworth State Park. We encourage further collection and continuation of this survey with consistent sampling techniques to raise awareness about the importance of freshwater fish diversity in stream ecosystems across the globe. We gathered fish species survey data from a region of the Genesee River in New York that has been insufficiently accessed to provide a baseline number of fish species in Letchworth State Park. We believe our fish species list can be used to identify trends in diversity in future studies and that our study will serve as preliminary data for the continuation of this work. We identified a total of 25 species of fish in this study, 22 of which were first collected within Letchworth State Park, below the falls.
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Museums, Monuments, and National Parks
The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, Denise D. Meringolo shows that the roots of public history actually reach back to the nineteenth century, when the federal government entered into the work of collecting and preserving the nation’s natural and cultural resources. Scientists conducting research and gathering specimens became key figures in a broader effort to protect and interpret the nation’s landscape. Their collaboration with entrepreneurs, academics, curators, and bureaucrats alike helped pave the way for other governmental initiatives, from the Smithsonian Institution to the parks and monuments today managed by the National Park Service. All of these developments included interpretive activities that shaped public understanding of the past. Yet it was not until the emergence of the educationoriented National Park Service history program in the 1920s and 1930s that public history found an institutional home that grounded professional practice simultaneously in the values of the emerging discipline and in government service. Even thereafter, tensions between administrators in Washington and practitioners on the ground at National Parks, monuments, and museums continued to define and redefine the scope and substance of the field. The process of definition persists to this day, according to Meringolo, as public historians establish a growing presence in major universities throughout the United States and abroad.
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Rethinking urban parks
Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming together in these relaxed settings, different groups become comfortable with each other, thereby strengthening their communities and the democratic fabric of society. But just the opposite happens when, by design or in ignorance, parks are made inhospitable to certain groups of people. This pathfinding book argues that cultural diversity should be a key goal in designing and maintaining urban parks. Using case studies of New York City's Prospect Park, Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park, and Jacob Riis Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area, as well as New York's Ellis Island Bridge Proposal and Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park, the authors identify specific ways to promote, maintain, and manage cultural diversity in urban parks. They also uncover the factors that can limit park use, including historical interpretive materials that ignore the contributions of different ethnic groups, high entrance or access fees, park usage rules that restrict ethnic activities, and park “restorations” that focus only on historical or aesthetic values. With the wealth of data in this book, urban planners, park professionals, and all concerned citizens will have the tools to create and maintain public parks that serve the needs and interests of all the public.
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