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    "title": "Rationalizing Management of Natural Areas in National Parks",
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    "abstract": "David M. Graber argues that national-park management policies must evolve as ecological science advances and societal values change, tracing this shift from the Yellowstone Act of 1872 through the Leopold Report of 1963 to contemporary fire and wildlife strategies. He shows how early \"spectacle\" era practices—protecting scenic features and accommodating tourism—gave way to resource management informed by systematic study, such as the Leopold Committee's call to restore \"primitive America\" scenes via population controls, exotic-species removal, and prescribed fire. Graber critiques the scene-management paradigm for its anthropogenic artifacts and proposes instead an \"ecological reserve\" principle: parks' natural areas should prioritize unhindered interactions among native processes (like fire, succession, and predator–prey cycles) and structural elements (plants, animals, soils) except when intervention is required to reverse human impacts, protect key resources, or safeguard human life and property. By framing parks as indispensable living laboratories—where baseline ecosystem functions can be studied and monitored—he calls on the Park Service to embrace a management ethic that maximizes scientific value and preserves dynamic natural processes for future generations.",
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    "date_published": "1983-09-01T18:00:00Z",
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