Lake Mead National Recreation Area: History of America’s First National Playground | America's National Parks | Outdoor Adventure & Family Vacation Destination
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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.
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Jonathan Foster's book on Lake Mead is a valuable study in the changing values of the National Park Service. When the NPS was founded it had two missions: protecting nature and making it accessible for public enjoyment. Increasingly, these two mandates have come into conflict. From its beginning Lake Mead NRA was something of a contradiction, since it was not a natural wonder but a human-made reservoir for water storage and power generation. At first the NPS was happy to manage Lake Mead for recreational use, mainly motor boats. But as the NPS has increasingly made protection a higher value than recreation, and as climate change has dropped the lake levels to record lows, the NPS has had to curtail some longtime uses and increase user fees, creating resentments. This book is the third in the University of Nevada Press's new series on the history of national parks.
