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Since the first edition of this book was published ten years ago, the U.S. national park system has more than doubled in size, and the National Park Service (NPS) has been subjected to more political manipulation than at any time since the agency was established in 1916. Before 1972, no NPS director had ever been removed for political reasons; sinc

Latest issue consulted: May 17, 1999. ; At head of title, 1994- : U.S. government information about .; U.S. government publications about . ; Title from caption. ; Each issue supersedes previous issue; generally issued annually with some issues not published and two issues published in some years. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"NPS D-1006"--P. [3] of cover. ; "December 1994"--P. [3] of cover. ; "November 1994." ; Shipping list no.: 95-0055-P. ; Cover title. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-67). ; Mode of access: Internet.

"This study is a chronicle of how subsistence management in Alaska has grown and evolved"--P. viii. ; "September 2002." ; Shipping list no.: 2003-0059-P. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-292) and index. ; 1. Alaska Native and rural lifeways prior to 1971 -- 2. The National Park Service and the subsistence question -- 3. Subsistence in Alaska's parks, 1910-1971 -- 4. The Alaska lands question, 1971-1980 -- 5. Initial subsistence management efforts -- 6. Managing Alaska's subsistence program, 1985-1989 -- 7. The federal assumption process, 1989-1993 -- 8. NPS subsistence management activities, 1990-present -- 9. The subsistence fishing question -- 10. Concluding remarks. ; "This study is a chronicle of how subsistence management in Alaska has grown and evolved"--P. viii. ; Mode of access: Internet.

On verso of t.-p.: United States Dept. of the Interior. Harold L. Ickes, secretary. National Park Service. Arno B. Cammerer, director. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Letter from solicitor Frederic L. Kirgis on behalf of his clients filing claims in regards to the fire started on government-owned apartments in the Grand Canyon.

2016 Spring. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; As the United States becomes more diverse, the National Park Service will need to continue to adapt if it is going to continue to garner public, political, and financial support in the future. In these three chapters, the role of citizens, funders, politicians and visitors is investigated. The first two chapters of this study explore the historic role of citizens and legislators in creating and developing the National Park System. The third chapter takes park visitor data, joined with market research data, to explore different theories on barriers for diverse audiences, in-group heterogeneity of park visitors, and opportunities to use this research to engage new park visitors and boosters from diverse backgrounds. The first chapter provides a historical perspective on the origins of the National Park Service. This chapter considers the early advocates and park champions from all walks of life who helped shaped the system in its earliest years. In particular it focuses on those outside the government bureaucracy who helped provide the infrastructure and resources, and who got the country energized around the concept of government investment in conservation and heritage work. The second chapter explores political aspects of designating new sites into the National Park System. Federally designated protected lands represent a variety of political, economic, recreational and ideological costs and benefits. The chapter reviews some of the main arguments for and against creating new National Park sites, the legislative steps that proposed parks go through in the process to become an official national park unit, and tests the electoral competition theory, an adaptation of economic rational choice theory applied to political behavior. The electoral competition theory hypothesizes that as the congressional majority margin decreases (gets more competitive), politicians will act in a more strategic & less partisan manner. This study examined the creation of new National Park units from 1934-2010 in the US, and found evidence in support of partisanship, electoral competition, and that presidential election years heightened the competitive behaviors of legislators. This suggests that the evolution of the parks system has been influenced by political interests and political gamesmanship. The third chapter explored in-group racial and ethnic heterogeneity among National Park visitors. Park visitation rates for minority visitors are low compared to white visitors. Teasing out the in-group heterogeneity of visitors provides park administrators with better information on which specific audience segments they are currently drawing to the parks. In this study three theories were tested to evaluate and compare the role of (a) cultural differences, (b) affluence and proximity, and (c) an integrated model that includes race, resources, geography, and lifestyles factors in specifying statistically relevant differences between and within groups. For the study, park visitor information was joined with psychographic and geo-demographic data. The results show that there is significant heterogeneity within racial or ethnic groups and the model with the strongest effect size is the integrated model that considers visitors in a broadest context, though each model provided insights about visitor heterogeneity. Also included was a sample of ways park administrators could apply the information from the study to develop targeted outreach and programming.

In most workplaces, women earn less than their male counterparts. The gender pay gap has multiple, complex, interrelated causes. Federal organizations follow several best practices to work to reduce pay inequity based on gender, but some of these practices risk institutionalizing tendencies toward gendered organizational structures and confounding maleness with the constructions of idealized workers. The National Park Service (NPS) is the context in which these constructs are applied to examine differences in pay based on gender. Collaborating with the NPS Office of Equal Opportunity, anonymized employee-level data were utilized in a regression-based analysis to control for multiple factors influencing pay. The analysis allowed for statistical control for the effects of multiple relevant factors on NPS employee pay—moving beyond descriptive information. The results showed some patterns of gender pay inequity that can be explained by occupational segregation rooted in an understanding of gendered organizations and occupational identities that favor maleness. Concrete applications to address the discrepancies in pay found in the analysis are presented.