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Two classic studies of the National Park System.
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Two classic studies of the National Park System.

A rich online resource for National Park Service materials is the National Park History site.

References include:

Albright, Horace M. 1985. The Birth of the National Park Service, The Founding Years. Howe Bros., Chicago.

Boslough, John and John Gattuso. 1996. America’s National Parks. Publications International, Ltd.

Huth, Hans. 1957. Nature and the American. Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

Ise, John. 1961. Our National Park Policy, a Critical History. Published for Resources for the Future, Inc. by the Johns Hopkins Press

Leopold, Aldo. 1949. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford University Press.

Shankland, Robert. 1951. Steve Mather and the National Parks. Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Tilden, Freeman. 1955. The National Parks, What they Mean to You and Me. Alfred A. Knopf

Udall, Stewart L. 1965. The Quiet Crisis. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York.

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Pola Islands are a dominant feature of Tutuila Island’s rugged north coastline

Did You Know?
American Samoa, the only U.S. territory south of the equator, consists of five rugged, highly eroded volcanic islands and two coral atolls. The land area of the territory is 76 square miles.
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