Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions Science and the Perception of Nature

Name: Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions Science and the Perception of Nature
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ISBN: 9780803237223

ISBN-10: 0803237227

ISBN-13: 9780803237223

Edition: 1999

Authors: James A. Pritchard

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American ecologists seeking to influence the founders of the National Park Service had hoped that protection of the parks would create preserves where “natural conditions” could exist in an idealized presettlement state. These hopes, however, produced a bitter irony. In order to secure a naturally functioning park, officials had to provide intensive management to preserve “nature at work.” For the better part of the twentieth century, the forms this management has taken have polarized public opinion. James A. Pritchard’sPreserving Yellowstone’s Natural Conditionsdemonstrates that even the most up-to-date scientific policy could not reckon with public expectations and animal behavior.…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 370
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English