Uncertain Path - A Search for the Future of National Parks

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-27138-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

In this provocative walking meditation, writer and former park ranger William Tweed takes us to California’s spectacular High Sierra to discover a new vision for our national parks as they approach their 100th anniversary. Tweed, who worked among the Sierra Nevada’s big peaks and big trees for more than thirty years, has now hiked more than 200 miles along California’s John Muir Trail in a personal search for answers: How do we address the climate change we are seeing even now—in melting glaciers in Glacier National Park, changing rainy seasons on Mt Rainer, and more fire in the West’s iconic parks. Should we intervene where we can to preserve biodiversity? Should the parks merely become ecosystem museums that exhibit famous landscapes and species? Asking how we can make these magnificent parks relevant for the next generation, Tweed, through his journey, ultimately shows why we must do just that.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tweed, William C.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jarvis, Jonathan B.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Introduction

1. South from Yosemite

2. Kings Canyon National Park

3. Sequoia National Park

4. National Parks in the Twenty-first Century

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index

Über Autor(innen)

William Tweed, Chief Park Naturalist at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks before he retired in 2006, is the author, with Lauren Davis, of Death Valley and the Northern Mojave, A Visitor’s Guide and, with Lary M. Dilsaver, of Challenge of the Big Trees: A Resource History of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.