Books written by Alfred Runte

Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness

An inventory may also be found in Linda Wedel Greene, Historic Resource Study: Yosemite, 3 vols. (Washington, DC: US Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1987), vol. 1. 18. State of California, Biennial Report of the ...
Trains of Discovery: Railroads and the Legacy of Our National Parks

Illustrated with paintings, posters, photographs, and artifacts from major libraries and public archives, as well as America’s railroads and the author’s private collection, this book is a sight to behold as well as a wonderful, ...
National Parks: The American Experience

On the issue of population and development pressures now affecting the national parks , see Michael Frome , Regreening the National Parks ( Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 1992 ) . 5. Timothy Egan , “ New Gold Rush Stirs Fears of ...
National Parks: The American Experience

What well might be called a biography of the agency, commemorating its centennial in 2016, is Heather Hansen, Prophets and Moguls, Rangers and Rogues, Bison and Bears: 100 Years of the National Park Service (Seattle: Mountaineers Books, ...
Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness

This is an account of that classic confrontation, as told from the perspective of natural resources and environment. The focus is Yosemite, where debating environmental change is now a century and a quarter old.
Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness

Among all of the debates affecting America's national parks, the most enduring-and most intense-is where to draw the line between preservation and use. This is an account of that classic...
National Parks: The American Experience

In this lavishly illustrated book well-known environmental historian Alfred Runte, a prominent figure on the Ken Burns documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea, tells the highly engaging story of the development of our national ...
National Parks: The American Experience

Interpretative history of the national parks system proposing the establishment of national parks evolved out of a need to fulfill cultural rather than environmental needs, and examining the problems of...
Yosemite and Sequoia: A Century of California National Parks

This collection of essays and photographs, originally published as a special issue of California History, the journal of the California Historical Society, documents the creation and management of California's first three national parks, ...