| Book Review | Environmental History, 9.4

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Book Review

The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism. By Hal K. Rothman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xi + 258 pp. Map, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.

I began reading this administrative history of Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) with some skepticism, for in its headline the publisher's news release accompanying my review copy exclaimed that the "park serves as perfect model." Perfect model of what? On sabbatical leave in the Bay area, where I was studying conflicts over ecological management of parks in San Francisco, I was finding a situation far from what most would call perfect. With debates raging within the park over off-leash dog use, public area closures for endangered species protection, and native-exotic plant management, some stakeholders I was interviewing for my research would have found "poster child" a more fitting term.

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