National Parks and America's scientific heritage
Watkins T, Baron J, Pavlovic NB. 2016. National Parks and America's scientific heritage. National Park Service
From the abstract: "Some national parks protect places that have played important roles in the development of major scientific ideas and practices. For instance, in the late 1890s the dunes at the southern end of Lake Michigan, which are now protected within Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, provided the first evidence for succession in plant communities. Succession has been one of the most important and influential concepts in ecology ever since. Parks such as INDU are valuable not only for protecting natural and cultural resources, but also for revealing our intellectual heritage and the development of scientific ideas. We are starting a project to find and tell digital stories of such intellectual heritage, and we invite your participation."