Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Districts Act
1880
1885 Banff Hot
Springs Reserve
declared
1887 Tongariro
deeded to the
Rise of 'Progressive
Conservation' led by Gifford
Pinchot
New Zealand
government
Rise of the 'Bush Idyll'
National Parks associated
recreation and tourism
'Sydney or the Bush'
1891 National Park Act
(S.A.) 1892 Tower Hill
National Park Act (Vic.)
Strengthening of
a romantic
1890 F.J.Turner declares the end of
the
vision of nature
in Canada and
1891 American frontier; Yosemite
National Park created with
help of railroads; Forests
Reserves Act 1891
rise of
progressive
conservation
1894 Algonquin
Park established
1892 J.Matson
calls for
Australasian
Indigenous Parks
1900 Cult of the Wilderness
Tourism a major motive for
the
establishment of
parks in all four
countries
1905 US Forest Service created
1905 State Forests and
1910
1911 Dominion
Forest Reserves
and Parks Act
National Parks Act
1913 Preservationists lose battle to
prevent Hetch Hetchy being
dammed
(Queensland) 1915
Scenery
1916 US National Park Service
created
Preservation Act (Tas.)
1920 Rise of Ecological
Perspectives Forest Service
areas retained as 'primitive
lands'
Negative reaction
to introduced
animals in
National Parks
begins
Growth of the
'Bushwalking Movement'
under Myles Dunphy in
NSW
1928 Forest Service
Regulation L-20
1927 Formation of the
National Parks and
Primitive Areas Council
1930
1930 National
Parks Act
1934 Everglades National
Park established
1934 Greater Blue
Mountains National
1937 Formation of the
Wilderness Society
Park Scheme
1939 Forest Service ′U′
Regulations
Development of Snowy-
lndi
1940
Proposal (NSW)
1949 Keyser Report
1944 Kosciusko State Park
Act
1950 Dinosaur National
Monument
1952 National Parks
Act
