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Posted inLiterature

Western Lit: ‘To Conserve Unimpaired’ Examines ‘America’s Best Idea’—National Parks

In To Conserve Unimpaired, University of Utah professor Robert Keiter provides an unvarnished view of “America’s best idea”: the National Park System. Keiter, the country’s pre-eminent legal expert on the subject, tackles the question: Why does the park idea still evoke so much controversy when its value is so widely acknowledged? For one thing, as […]

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