This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America’s natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental justice, the challenges facing the conservation movement are both immediate and long term. In this time of uncertainty, we need a clear and compelling guide for the future of conservation in America, a declaration to inspire the next generation of conservation leaders. This is that guide—what the authors describe as “a chart for rough water.”
Written by the first scientist appointed as science advisor to the director of the National Park Service and the eighteenth director of the National Park Service, this is a candid, passionate, and ultimately hopeful book. The authors describe a unified vision of conservation that binds nature protection, historical preservation, sustainability, public health, civil rights and social justice, and science into common cause—and offer real-world strategies for progress. To be read, pondered, debated, and often revisited, The Future of Conservation in America is destined to be a touchstone for the conservation movement in the decades ahead.
ISBN-13: 9780226542058
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 02-26-2018
Pages: 112
Product Dimensions: 5.00(w) x 6.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Jonathan B. Jarvis was the eighteenth director of the National Park Service, serving from 2009 to 2017. He served for forty years with the NPS as ranger, biologist, and park superintendent in eight national parks.
Table of Contents
Totality: A Foreword Terry Tempest Williams vii
Chapter 1 Watershed 3
Chapter 2 An Enduring Responsibility 13
Chapter 3 A Chart for Rough Water 31
Chapter 4 Strategies for the Future of Conservation 43
Chapter 5 Toward a Unified Vision 69
Chapter 6 Resilience 79
Acknowledgments 87
Notes 89
Photo Captions 97
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