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Reflections On The Exclusionary Zoning Of American Nature, A.E. Keir Nash May 1981

Reflections On The Exclusionary Zoning Of American Nature, A.E. Keir Nash

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Joseph Sax's Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks deserves more serious scrutiny than does the typical pro-wilderness treatise about the optimum future of our nation's public lands. That is because beneath its elegant form lies a unique argument. Sax's stated central aim is to test the core "preservationist" position concerning nonbusiness use of public lands to determine whether it is a position that Congress, administrative agencies, and the public "should be inclined to follow" (p. 3). The question is, given the "enormous growth of recreation in recent years" (p. 2), whether the national parks, forests, and deserts should …


National Parks And Self-Restraint, Peter Steinhart Mar 1981

National Parks And Self-Restraint, Peter Steinhart

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Mountains Without Handrails: Reflections on the National Parks by Joseph L. Sax