The majestic beauty of Mount Rainier, which dominates the Seattle and Tacoma skyscapes, has in many ways defined the Pacific Northwest. At the same time, those two major cities have strongly influenced the development of Rainier as a national park. From the late 1890s, when the Pacific Forest Reserve became Mount Rainier National Park, the evolving relationship between the mountain and its surrounding residents has told a history of the region itself. That story also describes the changing nature of our national park system.
From the late nineteenth century to the present, park...
The majestic beauty of Mount Rainier, which dominates the Seattle and Tacoma skyscapes, has in many ways defined the Pacific Northwest. At the same...
This volume, the first in the New American West Series edited by Elliott West, explores Alaska's vast national park system and the evolution of wilderness concepts in the twentieth century. After World War II, Alaska's traditional Eskimos, Indians, and whites still trapped, hunted, and fished in the forests. Their presence challenged the uninhabited national parks and forced a complex debate over "inhabited wilderness." Focusing on three principal national parks - Glacier Bay, Denali, and Gates of the Arctic - the author explores the idea of "inhabited wilderness, " which culminated in the...
This volume, the first in the New American West Series edited by Elliott West, explores Alaska's vast national park system and the evolution of wilder...
Theodore Catton Matthew A. Godfrey St Paul District Corp
Includes full color maps and photographs. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is one of fortyone districts in the Corps' organization. As the northernmost district in the Mississippi Valley Division, it centers on the headwaters of the Mississippi River and the uppermost section of the river's nine-foot navigation channel. The St. Paul District oversees civil works projects and conducts disaster relief within the geographic boundaries of the district, implements the Corps' regulatory program in the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin and assists with other Corps' missions...
Includes full color maps and photographs. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is one of fortyone districts in the Corps' organization...
Theodore Catton Matthew A. Godfrey St Paul District Corp
Includes full color maps and photographs. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is one of fortyone districts in the Corps' organization. As the northernmost district in the Mississippi Valley Division, it centers on the headwaters of the Mississippi River and the uppermost section of the river's nine-foot navigation channel. The St. Paul District oversees civil works projects and conducts disaster relief within the geographic boundaries of the district, implements the Corps' regulatory program in the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin and assists with other Corps' missions...
Includes full color maps and photographs. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is one of fortyone districts in the Corps' organization...
