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Public Use of the
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Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Conclusions

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Public Use of the National Park System (1872-2000)
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CHAPTER 2
Entering a New Period in the 1960's


a. Population Growth.

b. Travel.

c. Outdoor Recreation.

d. Wilderness Preservation.

e. The New Conservation.


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The 1960's marked a turning point in conservation in the United States. New emphasis was given by new leadership to the significance of at least five forces that profoundly affect public use of the National Park System--population growth, travel, outdoor recreation, wilderness preservation and the new conservation. In this period the nation's needs for outdoor recreation, fully documented by the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission in 1962, and for wilderness, fully documented in hearings that led to the Wilderness Act of 1964, became more urgent than ever, against a background of mounting population, diminishing resources, increasing leisure time and income, growing mobility, and pyramiding travel.

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