A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park ServiceMelody Webb's reflections on her twenty five year long career in the National Park Service is an insider's account of a public bureaucracy. As a woman, she was working in a male dominated agency; as an idealist, she attempted to champion the wise use of the national parks in a pragmatic political agency. Webb's career began in Alaska during President Gerald Ford's administration. She helped set up the mechanism that permitted Alaskan Natives to claim