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HOT TOPICS: NATIONAL
PARKS
Scope|Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals,
Journals & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
Scope: There is a crisis
facing today’s national parks. Federal funding is not
adequate to cover the costs of maintaining the parks and
conducting experiments that will help preserve
endangered species. The park service receives 29.5
billion a year, but not nearly enough to manage 84
million acres in 390 park units. (CQ Researcher, Oct.
06, 2006)
Books dealing with the topic of National Parks are
listed in the Baddour Library’s online catalog under the
following subject headings:
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Nature conservation—Government policy—United States
Wildlife conservation
National parks and reserves—Management
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
CQ Researcher
Issues & Controversies
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Good, John M.
Interpreting the
Landscapes of Grand Teton
and Yellowstone National
Parks: Recent and Ongoing Geology. Moose, WY.: Grand
Teton Natural History
Assoc; 1996.
Keiter, Robert B. & Mark S. Boyce.
The Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem: Redefining
America’s Wilderness
Heritage. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1991.
Lowry, William R.
The
Capacity for Wonder: Preserving
National Parks. Washington,
D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1994.
Lowry, William R.
Preserving
Public Lands for the
Future: The Politics of
Intergenerational Goods. Washington, D.C: Georgetown
University Press, 1998.
Meyer, Judith L.
The
Spirit of Yellowstone. Lanham, MD:
Roberts Rinehart, 2003.
Rettie, Dwight Fay.
Our
National Park System: Caring for
America’s Greatest Natural and Historic Treasures. Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1995.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
For full-text journal articles click on the following
link:
Environmental Sciences
Forestry
Ecologist
National Parks
Wilderness
WEB SITES
National Park Guide
www.nps.gov/parks.html
National Parks Conservation Association Homepage
www.npca.org/
NatureNet: The National Park Service Nature & Science
www.nature.nps.gov/
Updated
02/08/2007
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