¹ On Mount Field National Park, see Debbie Quarmby, “The Politics of Parks: A History of Tasmania's National Parks, 1885–2005,” unpublished PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006, esp. 64–77.

² Ian Tyrrell, “America's National Parks: The Transnational Creation of National Space in the Progressive Era,” Journal of American Studies, this issue.

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¹¹ Sutter, review of The National Parks, 896.

¹² Richard White and Melissa Harper, “How Transnational were the First National Parks? Comparative Perspectives from the British Settler Societies,” in Civilizing Nature: National Parks In Transnational Historical Perspective, Conference at the German Historical Institute, 12–14 June 2008. Copy courtesy of Richard White.

¹³ See also Paul Sutter, “Putting Wilderness in Context: The Interwar Origins of the Modern Wilderness Movement,” in Michael Lewis, ed., American Wilderness: A New History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 168–83.

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¹⁵ ASHPS, Sixteenth Annual Report, 1911, 555; ASHPS, Nineteenth Annual Report, 1914, 320 (“untouched”); ASPS, Eighteenth Annual Report, 1913, 277 (“wild”).

¹⁶ James Bryce, “National Parks – The Need of the Future,” American Civic Association, [Pamphlets] Series 11, No. 6, December 1912, 6–13, 10.

¹⁷ This latter point is missing in Sellars, Preserving Nature in the National Parks, chaps. 1–2.