Shifts over Time in Recreation
This shift indicates a change in the managing actions or entities of a piece of land or of a recreation system.
What is a shift in governance?
This agency was founded in 1905 by Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot to manage timber production in the United States.
What is the US Forest Service?
This era of recreation management in the early 1900s saw recreation grow tremendously due to federal initiatives.
What is the Growth and Expansion Era?
This shift in accessibility saw a formal change in access to recreation resources for people of color in the United States.
What is desegregation?
These early park rangers were a small Black military unit that kept former Indigenous residents and settlers out of Yosemite National Park?
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
This shift indicates altered perceptions or beliefs about some activities or settings.
What is a shift in values?
These agencies manage recreation lands within the confines of an individual state.
What are state parks?
This late 1800s era of recreation management saw recreation as an important part of a healthy community.
What is the Public Good Era?
This legislation mandated changes to infrastructure to improve access for visually, hearing, developmentally, and mobility-impaired people.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
This belief asserted that the newly established country of the United States of America had a divine right to claim the lands to the west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This shift indicates an expansion or a shrinking of the individuals who are able to enter or utilize a recreation resource.
What is a shift in accessibility?
This agency was formed in 1946 after President Truman's administration merged the US Grazing Service and the General Land Office.
What is the Bureau of Land Management?
Our modern era of recreation management renewed the cultural perspective on the necessity of parks & recreation for health and wellness.
What is the benefits era?
This New Deal program employed young men and offered them food, shelter, and $30 a month during the Great Depression in exchange for the largest infrastructure contribution to recreation in history.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
This values shift in the mid-1800s championed by Emerson, Whitman, Fuller, and Thoreau saw nature as healer, not adversary.
What is transcendentalism?
This shift indicates a change in what recreation is being practiced, or how it is practiced.
What is a shift in activity?
This agency was established by President Grant to protect lands for conservation of valued species.
What is the US Fish and Wildlife Service?
This era of recreation management in the 1970s and 1980s saw a reduction in tax-funded recreation services and a pivot to fee-based participation.
What is the Commercialization Era?
The Wilderness Act of 1964 and the Endangered Species Act of 1973 are artifacts of this values shift during the late 20th Century in the United States.
What is the Environmental Movement?
This practice sets land apart for separate uses and minimal intervention, often removing Indigenous residents in the process.
What is fortress conservation?
This shift indicates a fundamental change in the relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world.
What is a shift in paradigms?
This agency was founded in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson to manage lands that were preserved primarily for recreation or cultural value.
This Era of Recreation Management saw great economic growth and success that coincided with a growth in recreation resources for the lives of the public after World War 2.
What is the Professional Era?
This federal initiative promoted domestic tourism in the wake of the post-WW2 economic boom.
What is See America First?
Set apart in 1079, this piece of British land was not publicly accessible until after the first parks were established in what is now Boston, Massachusetts.
What is the New Forest?