Biological Research and Management in the National Park Service: A History
Sumner L. 1967. Biological Research and Management in the National Park Service: A History. Office of Natural Sciences
The year 1967 appeared to signal the end of a 25-year period of isolation and frustration for biological research and management in the United States National Park Service. Prospects for understanding and support seemed the best since 1936, whey they had been very bright. During the intervening period those who helped to initiate and shape the Service's biological goals and programs had retired, transferred to other work, or passed away; successive reorganizations had largely obliterated traces of the continuity of ancestry between the early group which established modern concepts of ecological research and management for the national parks, and the recently created Office of Natural Sciences. Since the writer was one of the last of the early group still functioning as a Service biologist, he was asked to record the Office's antecedents in order to clarify how we arrived where we are today-- and what lessons can be learned from this history.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Sumner, Lowell
- Date of Issue
- 1967-05
- Units
- BIBE , CAVE , EVER , GRCA , GRSM , GRTE , HIST , ISRO , MORA , SAGU , SODN , YELL , YOSE
- Keywords
- Administration (program management), Biological research, Biology (general), Conservation, Ecology, ehistory, History, NPS, Resource Management, Survey