George Melndez Wright by Jerry Emory;

Author:Jerry Emory; [Emory, Jerry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO000000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, BIO030000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists, NAT011000 NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-04-11T00:00:00+00:00

The first section in the National Resources Board report by Wright and his team was titled “Recreational Land Requirements.” This was followed by “The Development of the Nation’s Recreational Resources.” The two sections expanded, in detail, the issues Wright had touched upon in his St. Louis talk. A single, impressive map was included in each section. The first, labeled “Geography of Recreation,” cartographically revealed what the text claimed, that “recreational resources are located without any relationship to human demands.” The map highlighted massive areas in the West available for recreation, far away from most urban centers, which were still principally on the East Coast.

The second map was titled “National Park System and Some Proposed Additions.” It constituted the grand wish list for Wright and his Park Service colleagues. Shown were the existing national parks, historic and military parks, battlefield sites, cemeteries, “miscellaneous memorials,” and national monuments. Down the entire right-hand column, however, was a list of twenty-one “Proposed Parks,” also highlighted on the map. From several suggestions on the East Coast (the White and Green Mountains), it moved south to the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia and Florida and to the Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina. It then shifted to the Midwest to list a handful of suggested “Indian Mound” parks. In the Southwest, more suggestions were added, including what would become Big Bend in Texas. In California, the future Channel Islands and Redwood National Parks were included, as well as an impressive swath of the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite south to Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Park. In the Northwest, Wright proposed additional parks to stretch down the volcanic ridge of the Cascade Mountains. New parks were also suggested for Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico.61

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