Places of Quiet Beauty : Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition
by Rebecca Conard
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- Title Places of Quiet Beauty : Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism
- Author Rebecca Conard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA
- Date 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0877455589I2N00
- ISBN 9780877455585 / 0877455589
- Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.19 x 0.96 in (23.47 x 15.72 x 2.44 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Heartland
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Geographic Orientation: Iowa
- Library of Congress subjects Nature conservation - Iowa - History, Parks - Iowa - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-27207
- Dewey Decimal Code 333.782
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Resource protection and public recreation policies have always been subject to the shifting winds of management philosophy governing both national and state parks. Somewhere in the balance, however, parks and preserves have endured as unique places of mind as well as matter. Places of Quiet Beauty allows us to see parks and preserves, forests and wildlife refuges - all those special places that the term "park" conjures up - as measures of our own commitment to caring for the environment. In this broad-ranging book, historian Rebecca Conard examines the complexity of American environmentalism in the twentieth century as manifest in Iowa's state parks and preserves.