Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The early years, 1864-1918 -- Defining the system, 1919-1932 -- The New Deal years, 1933-1941 -- The poverty years, 1942-1956 -- Questions of resource management, 1957-1963 -- The ecological revolution, 1964-1969 -- Transformation and expansion, 1970-1980 -- A system threatened, 1981-1996 -- Toward a second century, 1997-2015 -- Appendix A. Summaries of lengthy documents -- Appendix B. Significant court rulings and opinion.
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