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Kamiak Butte

kpath3 "The myth of the national park in North America is that of an unpeopled sanctuary amid the extensive terrestrial exploitation and settlement that surrounds it" (Wilson,The Culture of Nature).

kpath4 Like Sunnyside Park, Kamiak Butte offers its visitors the "nature experience." Perhaps considered even more natural, Kamiak is often viewed as a sort of refuge or escape from elements of "cultural civilization."

kpath5 Also like Sunnyside Park, Kamiak is an area molded or managed to guide its visitors through their experience in nature.

kpath "...management is something most people don't associate with wilderness; ... This is because they see wilderness as something separate from humanity - as untouched by human labor and culture, on the one hand, and as a place where one's behavior is free and unconstrained, on the other. Both ideas are problematic; both result, ultimately, in the destruction of what they value" (Anne Whiston Spirn, "Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmstead").
kview "Today, the less profit-oriented the land is, the more eligible it is for protection. This includes lands 'of no economic value' that have never seen development of any kind, as well as disturbed tracts that were once logged, burned or mined" (Wilson, The Culture of Nature).

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	"The myth of the national park in North America is that of an unpeopled sanctuary amid the extensive terrestrial exploitation and settlement that surrounds it" (Wilson,The Culture of Nature).
	Like Sunnyside Park, Kamiak Butte offers its visitors the "nature experience." Perhaps considered even more natural, Kamiak is often viewed as a sort of refuge or escape from elements of "cultural civilization."
	Also like Sunnyside Park, Kamiak is an area molded or managed to guide its visitors through their experience in nature.
	"...management is something most people don't associate with wilderness; ... This is because they see wilderness as something separate from humanity - as untouched by human labor and culture, on the one hand, and as a place where one's behavior is free and unconstrained, on the other. Both ideas are problematic; both result, ultimately, in the destruction of what they value" (Anne Whiston Spirn, "Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmstead").
	"Today, the less profit-oriented the land is, the more eligible it is for protection. This includes lands 'of no economic value' that have never seen development of any kind, as well as disturbed tracts that were once logged, burned or mined" (Wilson, The Culture of Nature).