The National Parks Compromised : Pork Barrel Politics and America’s Treasures
From Publishers Weekly
In a straightforward style, Ridenour, director of the National Park Service from 1989 to ‘93, chronicles his dealings with Congress, the executive branch and his own staff, and discusses the issues facing our national parks. He warns that the National Park system is sliding toward mediocrity, because Congress keeps adding parks that he believes have little national significance, thus spreading the Park Service too thinly. The book is organized into 27 relat…
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