Cover Page MENU Table of Contents Introduction The Early Years, 1864-1918 Defining The System, 1919-1932 The New Deal Years, 1933-1941 The Poverty Years, 1942-1956 Questions of Resource Management, 1957-1963 The Ecological Revolution, 1964-1969 Transformation and Expansion, 1970-1980 A System Threatened, 1981-1992 Appendix: Summaries of Lengthy Documents About the Editor		America's National Park System: The Critical Documents About the Editor About the Editor Lary Dilsaver is professor of historical geography at the University of South Alabama and consultant to the History Division of the National Park Service. Born and raised in California, he received a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1982. He has co-authored Challenge of the Big Trees: A Resource History of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and co-edited The Mountainous West and The American Environment (the latter published by Rowman and Littlefield). He has also written some two dozen articles and chapters on land use and management, conservation, and recreation. He and his wife, Robin, live in Spanish Fort, Alabama, adjacent to one of the last battlefields of the Civil War. END OF DOCUMENT
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