National Parks and Rural Development: Practice and Policy in the United States

Machlis has spent his entire professional career as a university professor and adviser to the National Park Service. He knows the agency as well as or better than those who work in the agency. In this book, he discusses the relevance of the National Parks in context to their neighbors, not their visitors, but those who have to live beside or near a national park and have to deal with the stream of visitors. The point of the book is how to smooth those potential conflicts into building bridges.