Improving Nature: Remaking Stanley Park’s Forest, 1888-1931
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Date
2008
Authors
Kheraj, Sean
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Publisher
BC Studies
Abstract
This article examines forest policy for Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1888-1931. The author argues that Park Board's forest policy developed with the objective of eliminating or disguising evidence of natural and anthropogenic environmental change, a landscape technique known as facade management. This policy was shaped in large part by a series of insect infestations and the recommendations of federal entomologists from the 1910s to the 1930s.
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Keywords
environmental history, parks, nature, Vancouver, Canadian history
Citation
“Improving Nature: Remaking Stanley Park’s Forest, 1888-1931” BC Studies (158) 2008: 63-90.