Managing a Land in Motion: An Administrative History of Point Reyes National Seashore
Sadin P and Historical Research Associates, Inc.. 2007. Managing a Land in Motion: An Administrative History of Point Reyes National Seashore. Park Administrative Histories. National Park Service. Seattle, WA
During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Point Reyes Peninsula, forty miles farther north along the San Andreas Fault, shook loose from its temporary moorings to the California coastline and lurched to the northwest by some twenty feet. The powerful quake that terrorized the city also tore through the land and jarred the rural inhabitants of Point Reyes. It was another abrupt step in the peninsula’s slow creep from southern to northern California, yielding a piece of land quite divergent from the California mainland to which it is now affixed. Although pressure along the San Andreas Fault continued to build for the remainder of the century, there were no other geologic events of a magnitude that could so drastically alter the land’s surface. By contrast, human events since 1906 have significantly altered the peninsula’s landscape. In the century following the earthquake, economic, cultural, and political forces gradually reshaped Point Reyes. Possibly the biggest tremor took place in 1962, when Congress created, and President John F. Kennedy signed into law, the Point Reyes National Seashore. At that juncture, the political geography of the land, as a new unit of the National Park Service (NPS), was about to change dramatically. This volume, Managing a Land in Motion: An Administrative History of Point Reyes National Seashore, traces, explains, and analyzes the ideas and events that produced the national seashore and transpired in the forty years that followed.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Sadin, Paul; Historical Research Associates, Inc.
- Date of Issue
- 2007-10
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- HIST , PORE
- Keywords
- A Heritage Lost and Regained: Understanding and Preserving the Park's Cultural Resources, Administering a Storehouse of Riches: Three Decades of Natural Resource Management, and Park Protection Operations, Coast Miwok Indian Communities on Point Reyes Peninsula, Conservation Movement in the Bay Area and Marin County, Cultural Resources, Development and Maintenance 1972-2000, Early Marin County and Point Reyes Peninsula Tourism, ehistory, Euroamerican Contact and Settlement, Exploring and Telling the Point Reyes Story: Interpretation and Education for Park Visitors and the Local Community, Historical Background (Prehistoric-1930s), History, Legislative History of the Point Reyes National Seashore Act 1958-1962, Navigation and Communication on Point Reyes, Origins of the National Seashore Concept (1929-1958), Park Planning, Point Reyes National Seashore Campaign, Shaping the National Seashore 1962-1972, The Campaign to Create a National Seashore, The Dairy Industry, Visitor Services, Visitor Use