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Enjoying Our National Parks (SCPL)
OBD Earth Day April - ADULT
OBD National Park Week (April 22-30, 2023)
OBD Earth Day April - ADULT
OBD National Park Week (April 22-30, 2023)
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"A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"--
"For years, America's national parks have provided public breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why close to 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now, to honor the centennial of the National Park Service, Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary...
2) Crimes against nature: squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation
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"This Study of the Early American conservation movement reveals the hidden history of three of the nation's first parks: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Karl Jacoby traces the effects that the criminalization of such traditional rural practices as hunting, fishing, and foraging had on country people in these areas. Despite the presence of new environmental regulations, poaching arson, and timber stealing became widespread among...
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