Book Description
This accessible book explains the complexities of key environmental laws and how they can be used to protect our national parks. It includes discussions of successful and unsuccessful attempts to use the laws and how the courts have interpreted them.
Contents
Preface
Foreword
PART I. The Realities of Park Protection
Chapter 1. External Park Threats and Interior's Limits: The Need for an Independent National Park Service
PART II. General Authorities
Chapter 2. National Park Protection: Putting the Organic Act to Work
Chapter 3. Common Law Protection for Our National Parks
Chapter 4. NEPA and the Parks: Use It or Lose It
Chapter 5. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act: The Bureau of Land Management's Role in Park Protection
Chapter 6. International Law and Park Protection: A Global Responsibility
Chapter 7. Glacier National Park and Its Neighbors: A Study of Federal Interagency Relations
PART III. Protecting Specific Park Resources
Chapter 8. The Clean Water Act: Still Vital to the Parks
Chapter 9. The Endangered Species Act: Protecting the Living Resources of the Parks
Chapter 10. Water Rights and the Duties of the National Park Service: A Call for Action at a Critical Juncture
Chapter 11. Park Planning, Historic Resources, and the National Historic Preservation Act
Chapter 12. The Clean Air Act: New Horizons for the National Parks
Chapter 13. No Holier Temples: Protecting the National Parks Through Wild and Scenic River Designation
PART IV. Regulating Development In and Around National Parks
Chapter 14. Oil, Gas, and Parks
Chapter 15. The Mining in the Parks Act: Theory and Practice
Chapter 16. The Geothermal Steam Act: Unlocking Its Protective Provisions
Chapter 17. Hydropower, Dams, and the National Parks
Chapter 18. The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977: Ten Years of Promise and Problems for the National Parks
PART V. Appendices
Index
