Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Paperback / softback Book

Lake Mead National Recreation Area Paperback / softback

Part of the America's National Parks Series series

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This book examines the creation, characteristics, and tribulations of the first United States National Recreation Area.

It also addresses the National Park Service’s historic role in managing reservoir-based recreation in a uniquely arid region.

First named the Boulder Dam Recreation Area, this parkland was created in 1936 by a memorandum of agreement between the National Park Service and the U.S.

Bureau of Reclamation. Over the course of its existence, the area has served as a model for a subsequent system of National Recreation Areas.

The area’s extreme popularity has, in combination with changing public attitudes regarding preservation and safety, presented the National Park Service with tremendous challenges in recent decades.

Jonathan Foster’s examination of these challenges and the responses to them reveal an increasingly anxious relationship between the government, the public, and special interest groups in the American West.

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