Jonathan B. Jarvis, "National Parks Forever" Book Event

1521 10th Avenue,Seattle WA 98122

21 July, 2022

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This is scheduled to be a live, in-person program at Elliott Bay Book Company. Former director of the National Parks Service (under the Obama administration) Jonathan Jarvis, along with his brother T. Destry Jarvis, have written a pointed book on the politically-charged directions the National Park Service has struggled to navigate - especially when the forces of pillage, plunder and exploitation are in office. That book is National Parks Forever: Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence (University of Chicago Press). “In careers spanning half a century, both Jon and Destry Jarvis personally witnessed how the National Park Service became a partisan battleground for competing political ideologies, with policies ricocheting back and forth every time a new administration came to power. Filled with detailed firsthand accounts and insightful analysis, National Parks Forever not only chronicles the sorrowful result, but also points to a way to rescue ‘America’s best idea’—and make it even better.” - Dayton Duncan. The Jarvis brothers have over 90 years of combined experience fighting to protect the national parks. Jonathan B. Jarvis was the 18th Director of the NPS and the former Superintendent of Mt. Rainier. This is scheduled to be a live, in-person program at Elliott Bay Book Company.