Lake Mead-Hoover Dam, the Story Behind the Scenery
Title | Lake Mead-Hoover Dam, the Story Behind the Scenery PDF eBook |
Author | James C. Maxon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Colorado River Valley (Colo.-Mexico) |
ISBN | 9780916122614 |
Become familiar with the vast Lake Mead country- its desert lakes, rivers, world-famous Hoover Dam, and the role that people have played through it all. This 9" x 12" book is overflowing with beautiful photos and interpretive text for your enjoyment.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Title | Lake Mead National Recreation Area PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Foster |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2016-08-02 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0874170052 |
This book examines the creation, characteristics, and tribulations of the first United States National Recreation Area. It also addresses the National Park Service’s historic role in managing reservoir-based recreation in a uniquely arid region. First named the Boulder Dam Recreation Area, this parkland was created in 1936 by a memorandum of agreement between the National Park Service and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Over the course of its existence, the area has served as a model for a subsequent system of National Recreation Areas. The area’s extreme popularity has, in combination with changing public attitudes regarding preservation and safety, presented the National Park Service with tremendous challenges in recent decades. Jonathan Foster’s examination of these challenges and the responses to them reveal an increasingly anxious relationship between the government, the public, and special interest groups in the American West.
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Title | Lake Mead National Recreation Area PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Park Service. Pacific West Field Area |
Publisher | |
Pages | 514 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | LLake Mead National Recreation Area (Agency) |
ISBN |
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Title | Lake Mead National Recreation Area PDF eBook |
Author | Rose Houk |
Publisher | Western National Parks Association |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781877856655 |
Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Mohave County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada: Draft general management plan and alternatives
Title | Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Mohave County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada: Draft general management plan and alternatives PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Park Service |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Ariz. and Nev.) |
ISBN |
Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Mohave County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada: Affected environment and environmental consequences
Title | Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Mohave County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada: Affected environment and environmental consequences PDF eBook |
Author | United States. National Park Service |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Agency.) |
ISBN |
Lake Mead
Title | Lake Mead PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Elizabeth Eichenberg |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2015-02-02 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1439649596 |
The drastic contrast between its desert landscape and the deep, blue waters of Lake Mead makes it difficult to envision the park's creation as merely incidental. After the completion of the Hoover Dam, the waters of the Colorado River began to flood the river valley and form one of the largest man-made lakes in the United States. The Bureau of Reclamation soon realized the vast recreational opportunities that Lake Mead would provide. Through a memorandum of agreement, the National Park Service was tasked with managing the first national recreation area, formerly known as the Boulder Dam National Recreation Area.