Lake Mead National Recreation Area

Lake Mead National Recreation Area
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Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Total Pages : 162
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ISBN-10 : 9780874170054
ISBN-13 : 0874170052
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Book Synopsis Lake Mead National Recreation Area by : Jonathan Foster

Download or read book Lake Mead National Recreation Area written by Jonathan Foster and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the creation, characteristics, and tribulations of the first United States National Recreation Area. It also addresses the National Park Service’s historic role in managing reservoir-based recreation in a uniquely arid region. First named the Boulder Dam Recreation Area, this parkland was created in 1936 by a memorandum of agreement between the National Park Service and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Over the course of its existence, the area has served as a model for a subsequent system of National Recreation Areas. The area’s extreme popularity has, in combination with changing public attitudes regarding preservation and safety, presented the National Park Service with tremendous challenges in recent decades. Jonathan Foster’s examination of these challenges and the responses to them reveal an increasingly anxious relationship between the government, the public, and special interest groups in the American West.


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