"So the Future Will Have a Place"

As part of its centennial anniversary, Oregon Parks and Recreation is pleased to announce the publication of So the Future Will Have a Place: The First Century of Oregon State Parks. The book, an administrative history of the Oregon state park system, was written by historians Marin Aurand and Marc Carpenter for OPRD. It chronicles the story of Oregon’s state park system from the perspective of Oregon political policy, government decision-making and influential recreational leaders of the time.