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Discursive Horizons of Human Identity and Wilderness in Postmodern Environmental Ethics: A Case Study of the Guadalupe Mountains of Texas

Description: Using a genealogy of the narratives of the Guadalupes, I explore three moral identities. The Mescalero Apache exist as caretakers of sacred space. Spanish and Anglo settlers exist as conquerors of a hostile land. The park service exists as captives, imprisoned in the belief that economic justifications can protect the intrinsic value of wilderness. The narrative shift from oral to abstract text-based culture entails a shift from intrinsic to instrumental valuation. I conclude that interpretatio… more
Date: May 1993
Creator: Hood, Robert L. (Robert Leroy)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Slide of a man standing in the woods 1 of 2]

Description: Photograph of a slide with a white mat that is pinned to a black board that is hanging on the wall. The slide depicts a forest with tall trees in the background of the left side of the image and shorter brush and trees in the rest of the image. In the center of the image is a man who is seen in profile because he is facing the left side of the image. He is wearing long sleeves and his head is tilted back as though he is looking up at something. The sky is very cloudy.
Date: August 13, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Slide of a man standing in the woods 2 of 2]

Description: Photograph of a slide with a white mat that is pinned to a black board that is hanging on the wall. The slide depicts a forest with tall trees in the background of the left side of the image and shorter brush and trees in the rest of the image. In the center of the image is a man who is seen in profile because he is facing the left side of the image. He is wearing long sleeves and his head is tilted back as though he is looking up at something. The sky is very cloudy.
Date: August 13, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Wild Practices: Teaching the Value of Wildness

Description: The notion of wildness as a concept that is essentially intractable to definition has profound linguistic and ethical implications for wilderness preservation and environmental education. A survey of the ways in which wilderness value is expressed through language reveals much confusion and repression regarding our understanding of the autonomy of nature. By framing discussions of wilderness through fact-driven language games, the value of the wild autonomy in nature becomes ineffable. In remo… more
Date: May 2004
Creator: Lindquist, Christopher R.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Wilderness: Overview and Statistics

Description: This report details the information related to the Wilderness act, which was enacted by Congress in 1964. The contents include the history of wilderness, what exactly it is, prohibited and permitted uses, and the data presented in figures and tables.
Date: January 9, 2014
Creator: Hoover, Katie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Untrammeled by Man? An Ethnographic Approach of Outdoor Recreation Management in Charon's Garden Wilderness

Description: Charon's Garden Wilderness Area within the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma is a landscape that is granted federal protection through the Wilderness Act of 1964. The discourse of wilderness management is influenced by governmental policies and practice which organize knowledge surrounding the natural landscape, like with the formation and semantics of the Wilderness Act. The Wilderness Act establishes characteristics that are designed to monitor and control the landscape a… more
Date: December 2018
Creator: Lukins, Gabrielle M
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
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Wilderness and Everyday Life.

Description: I challenge the dualistic view of wilderness that has influenced wilderness philosophy, politics and experience in recent years. In its place, I offer an alternative vision that recognizes wilderness areas and working landscapes as complementary elements of a larger, inhabited landscape characterized by a heterogeneous mixture of human-land relational patterns representing various points along an urban-wilderness continuum. In chapters 2 through 4, I explore the philosophical, political and ex… more
Date: August 2011
Creator: Friskics, Scott
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Cap Cadets Try Survival Tests]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about cadets learning to survive in the wilderness using military survival kits.
Date: December 15, 1956
Duration: 2 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Turn from Reactive to Responsive Environmentalism: The Wilderness Debate, Relational Metaphors, and the Eco-Phenomenology of Response

Description: A shift is occurring in environmentalism to a post-metaphysical understanding of the human relationship to nature. Stemming from developments within the wilderness debate, ecofeminism, and eco-phenomenology, the old dichotomy between John Muir's tradition of privileging nature and Gifford Pinchot's tradition of privileging society is giving way to a relational paradigm that privileges neither. The starting point for this involves articulating the ontology of relationship anew. Insofar as the do… more
Date: December 2009
Creator: Christion, Timothy C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Into the Canyons

Description: Into the Canyons is a documentary short that provides an intimate portrait of two volunteer Wilderness Rangers working and living in Zion National Park in Utah for a summer. Sarah dreams of being a Park Ranger for the National Park Service, but must wait till she earns US citizenship. Working in an office, Allen wants a change in lifestyle. Together they explore the Wilderness and learn what it means to be a Park Ranger.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Hoekzema, Abbey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Wildlife]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about the Fort Worth city council designating Greer Island, surrounded by Lake Worth, a wildlife refuge which covers more than 300 acres, will be developed and maintained by the Children's Museum.
Date: May 11, 1964
Duration: 2 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Deer escapes]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a deer escaping the Forest Park zoo in Fort Worth.
Date: January 10, 1959
Duration: 2 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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