Phantom Parks: The Struggle to Save Canada's National Parks (Henderson Book Series)

By D. Richard Searle and Rick Searle D. Richard Searle

Phantom Parks is a hard-hitting and passionate examination of why our national parks are failing to protect the wild - and what must be done to reverse this trend. Having travelled throughout most of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552631605
• ISBN13: 9781552631607
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Seeing the trees for the forest

Phantom parks describes the attempt of Parks Canada staff to balance the competing objectives of protecting ecological integrity, marking the parks accessible to visitors, and providing services (and charging fees) to offset expenses.As Searle points out, we are only just starting to recognize the true cost and efforts required to protect ecological integrity, especially when dealing with issues of land use for adjacent lands, large mammal populations, forest fire suppression policies, and the fact that nowhere on earth is untouched by humans.The book makes the case that the parks look beautiful, but that in fact, their ecological integrity has already been greatly affected and is not being well protected, and it is unclear if it can be well protected. The book is highly recommended to anyone interested in the national parks, ecological policies, or our effects on supposedly natural ecosystems.