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Artigos de revistas sobre o assunto "United States Playgrounds"

Tuckel, Peter, William Milczarski e David G. Silverman. "Injuries Caused by Falls From Playground Equipment in the United States". Clinical Pediatrics 57, n.º 5 (2 de outubro de 2017): 563–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0009922817732618.

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The objective of this study is to document the incidence of falls from playground equipment in the United States over time and to provide a detailed profile of the individuals injured in playground falls using several state and national databases. During the past decade, there has been a steep decline in the number of injuries treated in emergency departments caused by falls from playground equipment in the United States. Males, children between the ages of 5 to 9 years, and individuals from lower economic strata are overrepresented among those suffering an injury. Falls from monkey bars result in the greatest number of injuries (52%). Schools/day care centers and recreation areas each account for approximately 40% of injuries. The incidence of injuries occurring at home playgrounds has declined sharply in recent years. Fracture of the upper limb is the type of injury most often associated with a fall from playground equipment (43%).

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Gagen, Elizabeth A. "An Example to Us All: Child Development and Identity Construction in Early 20th-Century Playgrounds". Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 32, n.º 4 (abril de 2000): 599–616. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3237.

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At the turn of the 20th century, children's play came under new and heightened scrutiny by urban reformers. As conditions in US cities threatened traditional notions of order, reformers sought new ways to direct urban-social development. In this paper I explore playground reform as an institutional response that aimed to produce and promote ideal gender identities in children. Supervised summer playgrounds were established across the United States as a means of drawing children off the street and into a corrective environment. Drawing from literature published by the Playground Association of America and a case study of playground management in Cambridge, MA, I explore playground training as a means of constructing gender identities in and through public space. Playground reformers asserted, drawing from child development theory, that the child's body was a conduit through which ‘inner’ identity surfaced. The child's body became a site through which gender identities could be both monitored and produced, compelling reformers to locate playgrounds in public, visible settings. Reformers' conviction that exposing girls to public vision threatened their development motivated a series of spatial restrictions. Whereas boys were unambiguously displayed to public audiences, girls' playgrounds were organised to accommodate this fear. Playground reformers' shrewd spatial tactics exemplify the ways in which institutional authorities conceive of and deploy space toward the construction of identity.

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Bunn, Taylor D., Leanne Howell e Lacy K. Crocker Papadakis. "Fair Play: A Qualitative Exploration of Visitor Behavior at PlayGrand Adventures All-Abilities Playground". Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice 7, n.º 2 (9 de maio de 2022): 39–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ie.2022.206.

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People with disabilities in the United States have access to a fraction of engaging play experiences available to others due to playground design choices, minimal legal requirements, and societal acceptance of the status quo. PlayGrand Adventures, the first and largest all-abilities playground in North Texas, meets this need by providing engaging play opportunities for everyone. This qualitative case study explores and describes community engagement at PlayGrand Adventures, informed by principles of environmental reciprocity supported by Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory (1986) and Gibson’s Affordance Theory (1979). The researcher collected data on community perception and engagement via a questionnaire, semi-structured interviews, and playground observations. The study fills a gap in academic research on all-abilities playgrounds in the United States to increase awareness of the systemic underserving of people with disabilities in this country and provides a potential solution. The researcher offers initial recommendations for PlayGrand Adventures’ future development and implementation with implications for replication in other cities.

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Budd, Kristen M., Christina Mancini e David M. Bierie. "Parks, Playgrounds, and Incidents of Sexual Assault". Sexual Abuse 31, n.º 5 (7 de setembro de 2018): 580–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1079063218797712.

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In the United States, certain laws restrict those convicted of sexually offending from accessing social spaces where youth congregate such as parks and playgrounds. However, empirical work to date has rarely described sexual assaults in these locations or tested the assumptions of these laws explicitly. To address these gaps in the literature, we drew on the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) to analyze offender, victim, and crime characteristics of sexual assaults that occurred at parks and playgrounds over a 5-year period (2010-2015). Estimated via multivariate logistic regression, results showed support for these law’s assumptions when analyzing this particular location. However, stranger perpetrators were significantly more likely to sexually assault adult victims versus youth victims. Several other offense features distinguished youth versus adult victim sexual assault incidents at parks and playgrounds, such as the offender age, the use of force, and the injuries sustained by the victim. Collectively, these findings both support and challenge these types of social space restriction laws.

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Moore, Justin B., Kristyn Schuller, Angelie Cook, Yuanan Lu, Zhaokang Yuan e Jay E. Maddock. "An Observational Assessment of Park-based Physical Activity in Older Adults in Nanchang, China". American Journal of Health Behavior 43, n.º 6 (1 de novembro de 2019): 1119–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5993/ajhb.43.6.9.

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Objectives: Parks are more widely used by older adults in East Asia than in the United States. Parks are an important community asset for healthy aging; yet, little is known about park usage and features among older adults in China. Methods: The Community Park Audit Tool and the System for Observing Play and Recreation (SOPARC) were used to assess park features, PA levels and primary activities among 40,469 older adults in Nanchang, China. Results: None of the 8 parks observed had basketball courts or baseball fields and only one had a playground. Results indicated that about half of older adults were active in parks, with women, cooler temperatures, weekdays, and morning hours being related to higher levels of activity. Conclusions: Lessons from the construction of parks in China may be useful in increasing park use in older adults in western countries. Features such as exercise equipment, water features, and small exercise areas were common where western parks are often designed with features for teens and youth including basketball courts, baseball fields, and playgrounds.

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Lemish, Dafna, Nelly Elias e Diana Floegel. "“Look at me!” Parental use of mobile phones at the playground". Mobile Media & Communication 8, n.º 2 (29 de junho de 2019): 170–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050157919846916.

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Research suggests that parent–child communication is rapidly changing as a result of the massive adoption of mobile devices and their penetration into interpersonal interaction within the family. Accordingly, this study aims to develop a more nuanced understanding of the impact of mobile device use on the quality of parent–child interaction in early childhood, based on ethnographic observations of 60 families at two playgrounds in the United States. The research findings suggest that parental behavior can be classified along a continuum of high engagement, divided engagement, and disengagement, often dependent upon whether and how parents use their mobile phone. Though mobile phones were not the only distracting factor during playground visits, their use was more highly correlated with parents’ disengagement from their children as compared to other distractors. Parents’ mobile phone use also corresponded to two main consequences for their children: safety concerns and emotional concerns, both resulting in missed opportunities for social learning. The results of this study call for closer attention to parental uses of mobile phones in public spaces.

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Uskokovic, Evangelina, Theo Uskokovic e Vuk Uskokovic. "watching children play: toward the earth in bliss". childhood & philosophy 18 (30 de abril de 2022): 01–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2022.65791.

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Watching children at play is favorite pastime for many elderlies. However, the growing safety concerns have prompted parents to become increasingly resistant to the idea of having strangers watch their children in parks and playgrounds. This creates an intergenerational gap in communication with potentially detrimental consequences for all social groups. Oral interviews were conducted and written surveys distributed that validated the hesitance of seniors, especially in the United States, to spend time at children’s playgrounds despite their finding the vicinity of children stimulating. Behavioral observations were conducted at playgrounds to quantify the positive and negative effects of supervisors’ ages on children’s play and thus indirectly assess whether there can be mutual benefits of making the presence of older people at playgrounds, which is customary in many countries, more culturally acceptable. Observations focused on the behavior of a pair of siblings showed that there is an increased probability of both conflicts and joyful expressions when the children were in the presence of a middle-aged person than when they were watched over by the elderlies. This has suggested that freer expressions stimulated in the presence of parent-like figures simultaneously induce the undesired and the desired behavioral patterns in the form of propensities for conflict and propensities for expressions of joy, respectively. This has confirmed that the observational stance has a critical effect on the observational outcome and that the age of the watchers has an effect on the behavior of children at play, with the age correlating directly with the calmness of the play, but also with a lower degree of exhilaration.

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Branas, Charles C., David Rubin e Wensheng Guo. "Vacant Properties and Violence in Neighborhoods". ISRN Public Health 2012 (14 de novembro de 2012): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/246142.

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Objectives. Violence remains a significant public health issue in the United States. To determine if urban vacant properties were associated with an increased risk of assaultive violence and if this association was modified by important neighborhood institutions (e.g., schools, parks/playgrounds, police stations, and alcohol outlets). Methods. Longitudinal ecologic study of all 1816 block groups in Philadelphia. Aggravated assault and vacant property data were compiled yearly from 2002 to 2006 and linked to block groups. A mixed effects negative binomial regression model examined the association of vacant properties and assaults between and within block groups. Results. Among all block groups, 84% experienced at least one vacant property, 89% at least one aggravated assault, and 64% at least one gun assault. Between block groups, the risk of aggravated assault increased 18% for every category shift of vacant properties (IRR 1.18, 95% CI: 1.12, 1.25, ). Parks/playgrounds and alcohol outlets potentially modified the association between vacant properties and aggravated assaults but only at low levels of vacancy. Conclusions. Increasing levels of vacancy were associated with increased risk of assaultive violence in urban block groups.

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Schwebel, David C., e Carl M. Brezausek. "Child Development and Pediatric Sport and Recreational Injuries by Age". Journal of Athletic Training 49, n.º 6 (1 de dezembro de 2014): 780–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4085/1062-6050-49.3.41.

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Context: In 2010, 8.6 million children were treated for unintentional injuries in American emergency departments. Child engagement in sports and recreation offers many health benefits but also exposure to injury risks. In this analysis, we consider possible developmental risk factors in a review of age, sex, and incidence of 39 sport and recreational injuries. Objective: To assess (1) how the incidence of 39 sport and recreational injuries changed through each year of child and adolescent development, ages 1 to 18 years, and (2) sex differences. Design Descriptive epidemiology study. Setting: Emergency department visits across the United States, as reported in the 2001–2008 National Electronic Injury Surveillance System database. Patients or Other Participants: Data represent population-wide emergency department visits in the United States. Main Outcome Measure(s) Pediatric sport- and recreation-related injuries requiring treatment in hospital emergency departments. Results: Almost 37 pediatric sport or recreational injuries are treated hourly in the United States. The incidence of sport- and recreation-related injuries peaks at widely different ages. Team-sport injuries tend to peak in the middle teen years, playground injuries peak in the early elementary ages and then drop off slowly, and bicycling injuries peak in the preteen years but are a common cause of injury throughout childhood and adolescence. Bowling injuries peaked at the earliest age (4 years), and injuries linked to camping and personal watercraft peaked at the oldest age (18 years). The 5 most common causes of sport and recreational injuries across development, in order, were basketball, football, bicycling, playgrounds, and soccer. Sex disparities were common in the incidence of pediatric sport and recreational injuries. Conclusions: Both biological and sociocultural factors likely influence the developmental aspects of pediatric sport and recreational injury risk. Biologically, changes in perception, cognition, and motor control might influence injury risk. Socioculturally, decisions must be made about which sport and recreational activities to engage in and how much risk taking occurs while engaging in those activities. Understanding the developmental aspects of injury data trends allows preventionists to target education at specific groups.

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Thiel, Jaye Johnson, e Karen Wohlwend. "#Playrevolution: Engaging Equity through the Power of Play". Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 123, n.º 3 (março de 2021): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146812112300301.

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This special issue continues a two-year conversation about a #playrevolution in literacies research, theory, and practice. The juxtaposition of play and revolution is intentional, highlighting the tension between play's prosocial benefits and collaborative production and the rapid change, uncertainty, and violence in today's schools, where we desperately need more humanizing elements that build people's connections to one another. The #playrevolution calls educators and researchers to explore the (un)predictable, (un)expected knots emerging through the coalescence of play and literacies, while also considering the possibilities play holds for educational equity in contemporary times. Bringing together twelve educational researchers across the United States, Canada, and Australia, this #playrevolution special issue explores the lively ecology of play-literacies in a variety of spaces—traditional writing and storytelling workshops, digital dialogues, video games, teacher-education courses, makerspaces, and playgrounds—with learners from preschools and kindergartens to high schools and universities.

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Teses / dissertações sobre o assunto "United States Playgrounds"

Labre, Nathalie Sandra. "An instance of the trade between the United States and Latin America applied to the playground industry". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1960.

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This project presents the marketing strategy that should be developed in order to be successful in the Latin American market. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the market's opportunities and threats linked to the customers/consumers expectations by using the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis.

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PHELAN, KIERAN J. "TRENDS AND PATTERNS OF PLAYGROUND INJURIES IN UNITED STATES CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1006198437.

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Livros sobre o assunto "United States Playgrounds"

S, Engel Brenda, e Taylor Beth, eds. Playing for keeps: Life and learning on a public school playground. New York: Teachers College Press, 2010.

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Keene, Michelle L. Babies by the bay: The insider's guide to everything from doctors and diapers to playgrounds and preschools in the San Francisco Bay area. 2^a ed. San Francisco: Wildcat Canyon Press, An imprint of Council Oak Books, LLC, 2005.

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Making rights real: Activists, bureaucrats, and the creation of the legalistic state. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Dicks, Shirley. The devil's playground: Behind prison walls. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.

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Pendleton, Don. Devil's Playground. Toronto, Ontario: Worldwide Library, 2007.

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Johns, Howard. Palm Springs confidential: Playground of the stars! Fort Lee, N.J: Barricade Books, 2004.

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B Street: The notorious playground of Coulee Dam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2008.

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Wilderness in national parks: Playground or preserve. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.

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Coney Island: The people's playground. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

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Immerso, Michael. Coney Island: The people's playground. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

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Capítulos de livros sobre o assunto "United States Playgrounds"

Bauman, Sheri. "Cyberbullying in the United States". In Cyberbullying in the Global Playground, 143–79. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119954484.ch8.

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Holfeld, Brett, e Mark Grabe. "An Examination of the History, Prevalence, Characteristics, and Reporting of Cyberbullying in the United States". In Cyberbullying in the Global Playground, 117–42. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119954484.ch7.

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Suslov, Dmitry, e Vassily Kashin. "Arctic as a New Playground for Great Power Competition: The Russia–China–United States Triangle". In Arctic Fever, 3–30. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9616-9_1.

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Davis, Allen F. "Playgrounds, Housing and City Planning". In Introduction to Planning History in the United States, 73–87. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351309967-5.

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Sung, Yoo Kyung. "Transnationalism and Play in Mexican Children’s Childhood and Multicultural Children’s Literature in the United States". In Rulers of Literary Playgrounds, 64–78. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003048985-6.

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Pope, S. W. "Sport and American Identity". In Patriotic Games, 3–17. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195091335.003.0001.

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Abstract Between the 1876 centennial and the 1926 sesquicentennial, a national sporting culture was firmly established in the United States. During this era, which one sport scholar has characterized as the “cusp between America’s Century of Work and its Century of Play,” baseball became the acknowledged national pastime; basketball was invented; boxing exploded in popularity under new rules; football grew into a national, widely attended spectator sport; a recreation movement blossomed on the nation’s playgrounds; and sports became central to the educational curriculum. In addition, tennis, golf, and bicycling swept through the middle class, while workers started their own semiprofessional and amateur leagues in a variety of team sports. Organizational and business structures arose to regulate and rationalize these new activities, which were enjoyed by professionals, college students, military personnel, industrial workers, African-Americans, Indians, town teams, and schoolchildren; games were played on sandlots, and in cow pastures, playgrounds, public parks, and modern stadiums.

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Goldstein, Mark A., e Myrna Chandler Goldstein. "Obesity". In How Technology, Social Media, and Current Events Profoundly Affect Adolescents, editado por Mark A. Goldstein e Myrna Chandler Goldstein, 16–29. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780197640739.003.0002.

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Abstract Obesity is a global issue in adolescents, especially in high-income countries such as the United States. Factors such as limited physical activities, disrupted sleep, increased screen time, and even remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the situation. Adolescents may develop high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and diminished self-esteem if they have obesity. Studies have determined that obesity is a risk factor for anxiety and depression in adolescents. Through social media adolescents may be exposed to advertisements with high-calorie, low-nutrient foods and beverages that could lead to dietary changes promoting weight gain. Prevention efforts for adolescents include less screen time, more physical activities, healthier diets, mandatory school-based physical education, and increased accessibility to parks and playgrounds.

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Bunk, Brian D. "Women and Soccer in the Early Twentieth Century". In From Football to Soccer, 145–64. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043888.003.0008.

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The games of 1893 did not result in a boom in the number of women playing soccer. No clubs or competitions formed, and for the next decade there were no documented women’s games. By the early twentieth century, soccer was viewed as a less physical and safer version of football. Soon, girls and young women across the country were playing soccer at playgrounds, high schools, and colleges. The chapter traces the growth of the sport among women and documents one of the earliest intercollegiate matches played in 1910. The chapter uses the story of Doris Clark and Helen Clark to illustrate some key points about the history of soccer in the United States. Women did not just play soccer, they were also administrators, coaches, and referees. The lives of the Clarks illustrate broader changes in attitudes toward women in sports, leading to more women participating in soccer, especially in schools.

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Wilshire, Howard G., Richard W. Hazlett e Jane E. Nielson. "Legacies of War". In The American West at Risk. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195142051.003.0011.

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Since 1900, United States troops have fought in more foreign conflicts than any other nation on Earth. Most Americans supported those actions, believing that they would keep the scourge of war far from our homes. But the strategy seems to have failed—it certainly did not prevent terror attacks against the U.S. mainland. The savage Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the 11 September 2001 (9/11) attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. were not the first to inflict war damage in America’s 48 contiguous states, however—nor were they the first warlike actions to harm innocent citizens since the Civil War. Paradoxically, making war abroad has always required practicing warfare in our own back yards. Today’s large, mechanized military training exercises have degraded U.S. soils, water supplies, and wildlife habitats in the same ways that the real wars affected war-torn lands far away. The saddest fact of all is that the deadly components of some weapons in the U.S. arsenal never found use in foreign wars but have attacked U.S. citizens in their own homes and communities. The relatively egalitarian universal service of World War II left a whole generation of Americans with nostalgia and reverence for military service. Many of us, perhaps the majority, might argue that human and environmental sacrifices are the price we must be willing to pay to protect our interests and future security. A current political philosophy proposes that the United States must even start foreign wars to protect Americans and their homes. But Americans are not fully aware of all the past sacrifices—and what we don’t know can hurt us. Even decades-old impacts from military training still degrade land and contaminate air and water, particularly in the arid western states, and will continue to do so far into the future. Exploded and unexploded bombs, mines, and shells (“ordnance,” in military terms) and haphazard disposal sites still litter former training lands in western states. And large portions of the western United States remain playgrounds for war games, subject to large-scale, highly mechanized military operations for maintaining combat readiness and projecting American power abroad.

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Wilshire, Howard G., Richard W. Hazlett e Jane E. Nielson. "Once and Future Trees". In The American West at Risk. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195142051.003.0006.

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Along the Colorado Plateau’s high-standing Mogollon Rim in northern Arizona’s Coconino National Forest stands a small patch of big trees that matured well before Europeans came to North America. Massive ponderosa pines, and even pinyon pines and western junipers, tower above the forest floor, shutting out all but the most shade-tolerant competitors. Few places like this one still exist anywhere in the United States, even on national forest lands. A tourist hoping to see all the diversity that earliest European arrivals found commonplace in the western landscape must seek out a wide scattering of isolated enclaves across the region. Western forests no longer contain the grand glades and lush thickets that our forerunners encountered because most woodlands, especially those owned by the public, largely serve a wide variety of human purposes, as campsites or home sites, board-feet of lumber, potential jobs, recreational playgrounds, and even temples of the spirit. We also rely on forests to maintain habitat for endangered species and seed banks for restoring depleted biodiversity—and to provide us with clean air and water, stable hillside soils, and flood control in wet years. Forests must perform these roles while being consumed, fragmented by roads, and heavily eroded. But there is no guarantee that these most beloved and iconic of natural resources can sustain such a burden. Federal, state, and local government agencies oversee and regulate western U.S. forest lands and their uses, trying to manage the complex and only partly understood biological interactions of forest ecology to serve public needs. But after nine decades of variable goals, and five decades of encroaching development, western woodlands are far from healthy. Urban pollution and exotic tree diseases, some brought by humans, are killing pines, firs, and oaks. Loggers have more than decimated the oldest mountainside forests—most valuable for habitat and lumber alike—with clearcutting practices that induce severe soil erosion. Illegal clearings for marijuana farms are increasing.

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