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Protecting Our Diverse Heritage is the proceedings volume from the 2003 GWS / National Park Service Joint Conference. The book (427 pp.) is available as a paperback ($26) or on CD ($10) postpaid to US & Canadian addresses (additional shipping elsewhere). GWS members get a 25% discount off these prices. Order on-line
You can also download individual papers from the book at no charge (PDF format). Links below.
CITATION:
Harmon, David, Bruce M. Kilgore, and Gay E. Vietzke, eds. Protecting Our Diverse Heritage: The Role of Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites. (Proceedings of the 2003 George Wright Society / National Park Service Joint Conference.) Hancock, Michigan: The George Wright Society, 2004.
Introduction
David Harmon, Bruce M. Kilgore, and Gay E. Vietzke
Administrative and Intellectual Tools for Park Management
Using State Laws and Regulations to Protect Parks from Adjacent Development Impacts: A Case Study from Hawaii
Stanley C. Bond, Jr., Sallie C. Beavers, Nicole Walthall, and Roy Irwin
Preparing for Conservation—Strategies for the Next Century (Session Summary)
Steve Elkinton
The Role of the U.S. Geological Survey in Science Delivery to the National Park Service
Dennis B. Fenn
Recreation Management Decisions: What Does Science Have to Offer?
Troy E. Hall
Fun with and Profit from a Non-profit Library Friends Group: Twenty Years of the Library Friends Group at San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
David Hull
On Becoming Relevant: Environmental History and National Park Management
David Louter
Administrative Histories in the National Park Service’s Alaska Region
Frank Norris
Sustainable Design for an Evolving Landscape
Paul Schrooten
Integration of the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI) into Southeast National Park Service Planning and Operations
J. Keith Watson
Barriers to Science-based Management: What Are They and What Can We Do About Them? (Session Summary)
Vita Wright
An Investigation of Agency Perceptions of Transboundary Protected Area Cooperation: A Case Study of Wrangell–St. Elias and Kluane Protected Area Complex
Sandra Zupan
Basic Values and Purposes of Parks
Carrying Capacity and Visitor Management: Facts, Values, and the Role of Science
David N. Cole
The Place, Cost, and Value of Vision in Preservation: The Ranger Steam Engine
David Hull
Carrying Capacity as “Informed Judgment”: The Values of Science and the Science of Values
Robert E. Manning
Russian Zapovedniks (Strict Nature Preserves) and Importing Ecotourism: Destruction of an Ideal or Learning from the U.S. National Park System?
David Ostergren
Parks as Battlegrounds: Managing Conflicting Values
Michael J. Tranel and Adrienne Hall
Cultural and Natural Resources: Conflicts and Opportunities for Cooperation
Conserving Our Collective Heritage—The Paradox of Integrated, Yet Distinctly Different Management of Cultural and Natural Resources
Denis Davis
The Challenge of Managing and Interpreting Avifauna on Cultural Sites within the Timucuan Preserve
Daniel R. Tardona, Roger Clark, Paul W. Sykes, and Jill Howard-Wilson
It’s All in the Family: Recommendations for Cultural and Natural Resources Reconciliation
Terri Thomas, Ric Borjes, and Anna Fenton-Hathaway
Zzyzx Mineral Springs – Cultural Treasure and Endangered Species Aquarium
Danette Woo and Debra Hughson
Countering Invasives, Restoring Natives
Creating a Sustainable Invasives Program in the East: Controlling Invasive Vegetation at Eight National Parks in Virginia, 2000–2002
James Åkerson and Charles Rafkind
Preventing Zebra Mussel Infestation of Lake Powell
Mark Anderson and John Ritenour
Reintroduction of Bonneville Cutthroat Trout in Great Basin National Park
Gretchen Schenk and Tod Williams
Estimating Project-Specific Restoration Costs
Terri Thomas, Garrett Lee, and Anna Fenton-Hathaway
Restoration of Oak Island Sandscape, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
Julie Van Stappen, Tony Bush, and David Burgdorf
Understanding, Managing, and Protecting Opportunities for Visitor Experiences
Tools of the Trade: How Protected Area Managers Can Protect Our Night Sky
Elizabeth M. Alvarez del Castillo, David L. Crawford, and Keith J. Krueger
How Much Do Visitors Value Scenic Quality? Results from the Blue Ridge Parkway Scenic Experience Project
Leah Greden Mathews, Susan Kask, Laura Rotegard, Gary Johnson, and Steve Stewart
Integration of Social Science into Protected Area Stewardship: Challenges and Opportunities
Stephen F. McCool
Advancing the Dialogue of Visitor Management: Expanding Beyond the Culture of Technical Control
Stephen F. McCool and George H. Stankey
Transportation Noise and the Value of Natural Quiet
Nicholas P. Miller
Visitor Impact Monitoring in the Coastal and Barrier Island Network
Christopher Monz, Yu-Fai Leung, Christine Ingle, and Heather Bauman
Facts, Values, and Decision-Making in Recreation Resource Management
Thomas A. More
Evaluating Carrying Capacities for Protected Areas
Tony Prato
Who Will Keep the Night?
Angela M. Richman
Yellowstone Wildlife Watching: A Survey of Visitor Attitudes and Desires
Alice Wondrak Biel
The Resource Challenges of America’s National Trails System (Session Summary)
Steve Elkinton
Managing Cultural Resources and Heritage
Ruins Preservation: More than Stuffing Mud
Janet R. Balsom and Amy Horn
NPS’s Cultural Resource Inventories: Understanding Resources, Improving Stewardship
Nancy J. Brown, Allen H. Cooper, Jacilee Wray, Amanda Zeman, and Phil Bedel
Innovative Concepts of Cultural Resource Management
Sarah Craighead
Reading the Cultural Landscape at Dyea, Alaska
Tonia Horton
The Vanishing Treasures Program of the Tres Piedras Group
James W. Kendrick, Patricia Thompson, Karen Beppler-Dorn, Scott Williams, and Hallie Larsen
Using Historic Structures to Serve Park Needs: The McGraw Ranch, Rocky Mountain National Park
Jim Lindberg
When Disaster Strikes at Your Historic Site During Construction
David W. Look
Expanding the Meaning of Heritage: The New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance
Jerry L. Rogers
California’s Cultural Heritage Resources Summit: A Call for Action
Denzil Verardo
Fort Stephen A. Douglas: Adaptive Re-use for a Community of Scholars
Robert A. Young
Preserving the Painted Desert Inn in Petrified Forest National Park
Amanda Zeman and Karen Beppler-Dorn
Protecting Oceans and Their Coasts
California’s New Marine Managed Areas System
W. James Barry and Gena R. Lasko
Building a Coral Nursery at Biscayne National Park
Richard Curry, Shay Viehman, and Daniel DiResta
Monitoring Visitor Impacts in Coastal National Parks: A Review of Techniques
Christine Ingle, Yu-Fai Leung, Christopher Monz, Heather Bauman
Restoration of Coral Reef Habitats within the National Park System
Jim Tilmant, Linda Canzanelli, Rick Clark, Richard Curry, Bruce Graham, Monika Mayr, Alison Moulding, Robert Mulcahy, Shay Viehman, and Tamara Whittington
Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Acknowledging the Past, Planning for the Future
Permanently Protected Parks for a Dynamic Society: An Examination of Race and Ethnicity in National Park Visitation and Participation
Megan Brokaw
Nervous Landscapes: The Heritage of Racial Segregation in New South Wales, Australia
Denis Byrne
Impact through Action, Influence, and Involvement—Ethnic Minority Recreation: Where to from Here? (Session Summary)
Edwin Gómez, Nina S. Roberts, and Deborah J. Chavez
Teaching Cultural Heritage Preservation: Developing Curriculum Materials for Minority Colleges and Universities
Antoinette J. Lee
Protecting a Diverse Heritage: Engaging Communities in Preserving and Interpreting that which They Value
Ernest W. Ortega
Promise and Challenge: Interpreting Race and Slavery at Civil War Sites (Session Summary)
Dwight Pitcaithley, John Hennessy, Michèle Gates Moresi, and John Tucker
Wilderness and Wildness
Perpetuating Natural Wildness
William E. Brown
Wasteland, Wilderness, or Workplace: Perceiving and Preserving the Apostle Islands
James Feldman and Robert W. Mackreth
The Wilderness Experience as Purported by Planning Compared with that of Visitors to Zion National Park
Wayne Freimund, Steve Peel, Jeff Bradybaugh, and Robert E. Manning
National Park Service Contribution to Increasing a Virtual Visitor’s Appreciation of Wilderness
C. B. Griffin
Extending the Wilderness Concept as a Cultural Resource
Andrew Kliskey, Lilian Alessa, and Martin Robards
The Essence of Indecision: The Hayduke Principle and Wilderness Policy Paralysis on National Park Service Lands
David Ostergren and Peter Jacques
Inholdings within Wilderness: Legal Foundations, Problems, and Solutions
Randy Tanner
Natural Resource Management
Fire Management and Resource Management at Big Cypress National Preserve
James N. Burch
Water Quality Data Collection and Analysis in Support of Anti-Degradation Standards: A Case Study with General Lessons
Richard Evans
Lakewater Chemistry at Acadia National Park, Maine, in Response to Declining Acidic Deposition
J. S. Kahl, S. J. Nelson, J. L. Stoddard, S. A. Norton, and T. A. Haines
California Condors of the Colorado Plateau
Elaine Leslie
A Historical Overview of Consumptive Use Patterns in National Park Service Areas
Frank Norris
Mexican Spotted Owl Distribution and Habitat within Grand Canyon National Park
David W. Willey and R. V. Ward
Museums and Collections
Museum Affinity Group Meeting (Session Summary)
Joan Bacharach
Determining Use Patterns for Museum, Archives, and Library Collections
Kent Bush
Professionalism and Training
Kent Bush
A Note on Performance Standards and Conservation Specifications for Exhibit Cases
Toby Raphael
On the Road to Democracy: The Gulag Museum at Perm-36
Gay E. Vietzke
Technology for Resource Management
Synthesis as a Law Enforcement Tool at Shenandoah National Park: A Synthesis Regional Support Center Case Study
Andrew Diego, Andrew Welti, Éadaoin O’Drudy, Ken Johnson, Carollyn Oglesby, Bruce Nash, and Steven Frysinger
Using GIS to Focus Field Inventories of Rare and Endemic Plants at Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Sandee Dingman
GIS, GPS, CR Database Information, and the FMSS Program at Kalaupapa National Historical Park
Tom Fake
Non-invasive Mountain Lion Sampling in Seven Southwestern National Parks
Emily Garding
A Comparison of Grid Sampling Designs with Stratified/Nonuniform Probability Sampling Designs for National Park Monitoring (Summary)
Paul H. Geissler and Trent L. McDonald
An Interactive Educational Tool for Understanding Cultural and Natural Resource Preservation at Petersburg National Battlefield
Mary K. Handley, Elisabeth Ranger, and Robin Snyder
Soil Compaction as Indicated by Penetration Resistance: A Comparison of Two Types of Penetrometers
Yu-Fai Leung and Kristin Meyer
Using Global Positioning Systems to Monitor Elkhorn Coral, Acropora palmata, at Buck Island Reef National Monument, U.S. Virgin Islands
Philippe A. Mayor, Zandy M. Hillis-Starr, Caroline Rogers, Kimberly K. Woody, and Barry Devine
Current Topics in Natural History Collecting and Collections
Current Topics in Natural History Collecting and Collections
Ann Hitchcock and John G. Dennis
Options for Managing Park Natural History Collecting and Collections: Overview
Ann Hitchcock
Options for Managing Park Natural History Collecting and Collections: Case Study—Acadia National Park
Brooke Childrey
Options for Managing Park Natural History Collecting and Collections: Case Study—Death Valley National Park, Collecting and Permits
Richard Anderson
Options for Managing Park Natural History Collecting and Collections: Case Study—Death Valley National Park, Collections Management
Blair Davenport
Options for Managing Park Natural History Collecting and Collections: Case Study—Channel Islands National Park, Plant Collections
Dieter Wilken
Natural History Collections: Overview
John G. Dennis
Retrieval, Compilation, and Organization of Vertebrate and Vascular Plant Voucher Specimens Originating from National Parks
Andrew Gilbert and Allan O’Connell
Ownership of Natural Resource Specimens as a Pitfall in Effective Research
Jonathan Bayless
Leadership of NPS Dealing with Contaminated Natural History and Cultural Collections
Judith J. Bischoff
Development of an Improved Data Management System at Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Craig Palmer and Mark Sappington
Workshop Report: Discussion Among NPS Research Coordinators and Curators of Ways to Improve Cooperation in Specimen Collecting and Curation
John G. Dennis and Ann Hitchcock
What’s in the Pipeline for Natural History Collecting and Collections?
Ann Hitchcock and John G. Dennis