The Geographer: National Parks (Spring 2012)

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The

Geographer Spring 2012

The newsletter of the

National Parks

What’s the Point? “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.” John Muir

Royal Scottish Geographical Society

In This Edition... •E xpert Views & Opinions: The Development of National Parks •O ff the Beaten Track: Cairngorms to Grand Canyon • L etter from Libya •O n the Map: Mapping Ice in Greenland •B ringing Learning to Life •E xpert View: Wallace Broecker on Temperature & Rainfall •R eader Offer: Scottish Hill Tracks plus other news, comments, books...

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