TY - BOOK AU - Runte,Alfred TI - National parks: the American experience SN - 9781589794733 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - E160 .R78 2010 U1 - 973 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Taylor Trade Publishing KW - National parks and reserves KW - United States KW - History KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-296) and index; Prologue: Paradise lost -- The American West -- Yellowstone -- Worthless lands -- The march of monumentalism -- See America first -- Complete conservation -- Ecology denied -- Schemers and standard-bearers -- Tradition triumphant -- The lesson of the big trees -- Ideals and controversies of expansion -- Decision in Alaska -- Into the twenty-first century : encirclement and uncertainty -- Epilogue: The future of national parks ER -