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Breaking New Ground by Gifford Pinchot, X The mythology of "gifted land" is strong in the Park Service, but some of our greatest parks were "gifted" by people who had little if any choice in the matter. Places like the Grand Canyon's south rim creating missing national park service years and Glacier had to be bought, finagled, borrowed - or taken by force - when Indian occupants creating missing national park service years and owners resisted the call to contribute to the public welfare. The story of national parks creating missing national park service years and Indians is, depending on perspective, a costly triumph of the public interest, or a bitter betrayal of America's native people. In Indian Country, God's Country historian Philip Burnham traces the complex relationship between Native Americans creating missing national park service years and the national parks, relating how Indians were removed, relocated, or otherwise kept at arm's length from lands that became some of our nation's most hallowed ground. Burnham focuses on five parks: Glacier, the Badlands, Mesa Verde, the Grand Canyon, creating missing national park service years and Death Valley. Based on archival research creating missing national park service years and extensive personal visits creating missing national park service years and interviews, he examines the beginnings of the national park system creating missing national park service years and early years of the National Park Service, along with later Congressional initiatives to mainstream American Indians creating missing national park service years and expand creating missing national park service years and refurbish the parks. The final chapters visit the parks as they are today, presenting the thoughts creating missing national park service years and insights of superintendents creating missing national park service years and rangers, tribal officials creating missing national park service years and archaeologists, ranchers, community leaders, curators, creating missing national park service years and elders. Burnham reports on hard-won compromises that have given tribes more autonomy creating missing national park service years and greater cultural recognition in recent years, while highlighting stubborn conflicts that continue to mark relations between tribes creating missing national park service years and the parks. Indian Country, God's Country offers a compelling - creating missing national park service years and until now untold -story that illustrates the changing role of the national parks in American society, the deep ties of Native Americans to the land, creating missing national park service years and the complicated mix of commerce, tourism, creating missing national park service years and environmental preservation that characterize the parks system.
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White Goats, White Lies: The Abuse of Science in Olympic National Park by R. Lee Lyman, Although mountain goats are native to the Cascade range, they do not appear to have been present in Washington states's Olympic Mountains during historic times. Wildlife managers introduced goats in small numbers in what soon became Olympic National Park in 1925 creating missing national park service years and sporadically thereafter for the next twenty years. According to a 1981 statement by the National Park Service, the mountain goats in Olympic National Park "appear to be significantly altering the alpine ecosystem the park was designed to protect creating missing national park service years and preserve. As a result, park managers have argued that the goats must be eradicated". An eradication program has been in place for several years now. White Goats, White Lies does not argue for or against eradication of "exotics" in Olympic creating missing national park service years and other national parks. Rather it examines the science used to justify the current park position creating missing national park service years and questions the extent to which science is an afterthought in national park decisions.
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