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From Competition to Cooperation: A History of Canada-US National Park Relations (2021)

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Environmental management National parks and reserves 20th century, early United States Canada Parks Canada United States. National Park Service

This essay explores the evolving international relationship of the two national park agencies that in 1968 began to offer joint training classes for protected-area managers from around the world. Within the British settler societies that dominated nineteenth century park-making, the United States' National Park Service (NPS) and Canada's National Parks Branch were the most closely linked and most frequently cooperative. Contrary to campfire myths and nationalist narratives, however, the relationship was not a one-way flow of information and motivation from the US to Canada. Indeed, the latter boasted a park bureaucracy before the NPS was established. The relationship of the two nations' park leaders in the half century leading up to 1968 demonstrates the complexity of defining the influences on park management and its diffusion from one country to another.

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Authors & Contributors
Macfarlane, Daniel
Bockstoce, John R.
Colwell, Mary
Alice Kim
Watt, Laura Alice
Marion Girard Dorsey
Journals
Environmental History
Canadian Historical Review
Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of American Culture
Publishers
Lion Books
Carleton University (Canada)
Yale University Press
University of California Press
Cornell University Press
Harvard University
Concepts
National parks and reserves
Environmental sciences
Hydroelectric power
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Environmental history
Technology and politics
People
Royer, B. Franklin
Osler, William
Muir, John
Kohn, Walter
Ickes, Harold LeClair
Bradley, Mary Hastings
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
United States
Canada
Niagara Falls
Philadelphia, PA
Arctic regions
England
Institutions
Carnegie Institute of Technology
United States. National Park Service
Niels Bohr Institutet, Copenhagen
Ecological Society of America
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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