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A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service Paperback - 2007

by Melody Webb


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Melody Webb's reflections on her twenty-five-year-long career in the National Park Service is an insider's account of a public bureaucracy. As a woman, she was working in a male-dominated agency; as an idealist, she attempted to champion the wise use of the national parks in a pragmatic political agency.

Webb's career began in Alaska during President Gerald Ford's administration. She helped set up the mechanism that permitted Alaskan Natives to claim up to 2 million acres of federal land to preserve culturally significant areas. Following a dozen years of historic preservation work in Alaska and New Mexico, Webb spent the second half of her tenure in management positions. She served as superintendent at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park and then as assistant superintendent, in charge of all park operations at Grand Teton National Park. During this period the Park Service was faced with conflicting mandates: there was a growing demand for recreational land use and, at the same time, environmental requirements and tight budgets limited the NPS's options.

Webb's frankness about the day-to-day politics within an institution that many Americans feel should be above politics make this book an eye opener for historians and anyone who has an interest in the National Park System.

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  • Title A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service
  • Author Melody Webb
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 286
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
  • Date 2007-10-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780826331762 / 0826331769
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.88 x 6.25 x 0.74 in (22.56 x 15.88 x 1.88 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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