Protecting Yellowstone

Author : Michael J. Yochim
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780826353047

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Protecting Yellowstone by Michael J. Yochim Pdf

Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park’s profound winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly bear habitat. Despite these problems, the National Park Service has succeeded in reintroducing wolves, allowing wildfires to play their natural role in park forests, and prohibiting a gold mine that would be present in other more typical western landscapes. Each of these issues—bison, snowmobiles, grizzly bears, wolves, fires, and the New World Mine—was the center of a recent policy-making controversy involving federal politicians, robust debate with interested stakeholders, and discussions about the relevant science. Yet, the outcomes of the controversies varied considerably, depending on politics, science, how well park managers allied themselves with external interests, and public thinking about the effects of park proposals on their access and economies. Michael Yochim examines the primary influences upon contemporary national park policy making and considers how those influences shaped or constrained the final policy. In addition, Yochim considers how park managers may best work within the contemporary policy-making context to preserve national parks.

Author : Michael J. Yochim
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 9780826353030

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Protecting Yellowstone by Michael J. Yochim Pdf

Yellowstone National Park looks like a pristine western landscape populated by its wild inhabitants: bison, grizzly bears, and wolves. But the bison do not always range freely, snowmobile noise intrudes upon the park's profound winter silence, and some tourist villages are located in prime grizzly bear habitat. Despite these problems, the National Park Service has succeeded in reintroducing wolves, allowing wildfires to play their natural role in park forests, and prohibiting a gold mine that would be present in other more typical western landscapes. Each of these issues--bison, snowmobiles, grizzly bears, wolves, fires, and the New World Mine--was the center of a recent policy-making controversy involving federal politicians, robust debate with interested stakeholders, and discussions about the relevant science. Yet, the outcomes of the controversies varied considerably, depending on politics, science, how well park managers allied themselves with external interests, and public thinking about the effects of park proposals on their access and economies. Michael Yochim examines the primary influences upon contemporary national park policy making and considers how those influences shaped or constrained the final policy. In addition, Yochim considers how park managers may best work within the contemporary policy-making context to preserve national parks.

Author : Dan R. Sholly,Steven M. Newman
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041109559

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Guardians of Yellowstone by Dan R. Sholly,Steven M. Newman Pdf

Yellowstone's chief ranger gives an intimate account of what it is like to be in charge of so great a wilderness.

Author : Diane Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700623891

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Yellowstone and the Smithsonian by Diane Smith Pdf

In the winter of 1996-97, state and federal authorities shot or shipped to slaughter more than 1,100 Yellowstone National Park bison. Since that time, thousands more have been killed or hazed back into the park, as wildlife managers struggle to accommodate an animal that does not recognize man-made borders. Tensions over the hunting and preservation of the bison, an animal sacred to many Native Americans and an icon of the American West, are at least as old as the nation's first national park. Established in 1872, in part "to protect against the wanton destruction of the fish and game," Yellowstone has from the first been dedicated to preserving wildlife along with the park’s other natural wonders. The Smithsonian Institution, itself founded in 1848, viewed the park’s resources as critical to its own mission, looking to Yellowstone for specimens to augment its natural history collections, and later to stock the National Zoo. How this relationship developed around the conservation and display of American wildlife, with these two distinct organizations coming to mirror one another, is the little-known story Diane Smith tells in Yellowstone and the Smithsonian. Even before its founding as a national park, and well before the creation of the National Park Service in 1916, the Yellowstone region served as a source of specimens for scientists centered in Washington, D.C. Tracing the Yellowstone-Washington reciprocity to the earliest government-sponsored exploration of the region, Smith provides background and context for many of the practices, such as animal transfers and captive breeding, pursued a century later by a new generation of conservation biologists. She shows how Yellowstone, through its relationship with the Smithsonian, the National Museum, and ultimately the National Zoo, helped elevate the iconic nature of representative wildlife of the American West, particularly bison. Her book helps all of us, not least of all historians and biologists, to better understand the wildlife management and conservation policies that followed.

Author : Hunt Janin,Nicole Sheehan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476681078

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Yellowstone by Hunt Janin,Nicole Sheehan Pdf

Yellowstone National Park is the focal point of the 22-million-acre, multifaceted Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, located in northwestern Wyoming and in parts of eastern Idaho and Montana. Yellowstone has a uniquely American identity as a place where nature--largely untouched and unmanaged--is allowed to flourish. This is a detailed survey that blends Yellowstone's past into its present and explores its likely future. It covers the first inhabitants of the area; the explorers and visionary conservationists who first brought Yellowstone to public attention; the unsung early heroes of the park's ranger service; and the flora, fauna, and spectacular geology of the region. The book also covers the possible future paths for the park in light of global climate change.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Underwater archaeology
ISBN : IND:30000086936642

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Yellowstone National Park by Anonim Pdf

Author : James A. Pritchard
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496233059

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Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions by James A. Pritchard Pdf

In this new edition James A. Pritchard has added a summary of recent developments in wildlife science and management and discusses historical continuities in the role of Yellowstone Park as a wildlife refuge and conservator.

Author : Daniel Nelson
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781607325703

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Nature's Burdens by Daniel Nelson Pdf

Nature’s Burdens is a political and intellectual history of American natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century—a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among federal policymakers, and changing ideas about the goals of conservation. Telling a story of persistent activism, conflict, and frustration but also of striking achievement, it is an account of how new ideas and policies regarding human relationships to plants, animals, and their surroundings have become vital features of modern environmentalism. In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress embraced the largely dormant movement to preserve distinctive landscapes and the growing demand for outdoor recreation, establishing an unprecedented number of parks, monuments, and recreation areas. The election of Ronald Reagan and a shift to a Republican-controlled Senate brought this activity to an abrupt halt and introduced a period of intense partisanship and legislative gridlock that extends to the present. In this political climate, three developments largely defined the role of conservation in contemporary society: environmental organizations have struggled to defend the legal status quo, private land conservation has become increasingly important, and the emergence of potent scientific voices has promoted the protection of animals and plants and injected a new sense of urgency into the larger cause. These developments mark this period as a distinctive and important chapter in the history of American conservation. Scrupulously researched, scientifically and politically well informed, concise, and accessibly written, Nature’s Burdens is the most comprehensive examination of recent efforts to protect and enhance the natural world. It will be of interest to environmental historians, environmental activists, and any general reader interested in conservation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034539445

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Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks (N.P.), Winter Use Plans by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031877368

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Interagency Bison Management Plan for State of Montana and Yellowstone National Park by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American bison
ISBN : UIUC:30112049172973

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Bison Management Plan for the State of Montana and Yellowstone National Park: Comments on draft environmental impact statement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas C. Rust
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700629619

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Watching over Yellowstone by Thomas C. Rust Pdf

When, in 1883, Congress charged the US Army with managing Yellowstone National Park, soldiers encountered a new sort of hostility: work they were untrained for, in a daunting physical and social environment where they weren’t particularly welcome. When they departed in 1918, America had a new sort of serviceman: the National Park Service Ranger. From the creation of Yellowstone National Park to the conclusion of the army’s superintendence, Watching over Yellowstone tells the boots-on-the-ground story of the US troops charged with imposing order on man and nature in America’s first national park. Yellowstone National Park had been created only fourteen years before Captain Moses Harris arrived at Mammoth Hot Springs with his company, Troop M of the First United States Cavalry, in August of 1886. And in those years, the underfunded, poorly supervised park had been visited freely by over-eager tourists, vandals, and poachers. Thomas C. Rust describes the task confronting Congress, military superintendents, and the common soldiers as the ever-increasing number of tourists, commercial interests, and politics stained the unruly park. At a time when the army was already undergoing a great transformation, the common soldiers were now struggling with unusual duties in unfamiliar terrain, often in unaccustomed proximity to the social elite who dominated the tourist class—fertile if uncertain ground for both the failures and the successes that eventually shaped the National Park Service’s ranger corps. What this meant for the average soldier emerges from the materials Rust consults: orders, circulars, inspection reports, court-martial cases, civilian accounts, and evidence from excavated soldier stations in the park. A nuanced social history from a rare ground-level perspective, his book captures an extraordinary moment in the story of America’s military and its national parks.

Author : David Aretha
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1598450875

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Yellowstone National Park by David Aretha Pdf

Learn about Yellowstone National Park's history and varied attractions, including Old Faithful, Lower Geyser Basin, and Tower Fall, as well as its resident wildlife.

Author : Chris Bowman
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781648348020

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Yellowstone National Park by Chris Bowman Pdf

Yellowstone is the oldest national park in the United States! It is home to famous features, such as Grand Prismatic Spring and Old Faithful. In this leveled title, readers will explore the park’s landmarks, geology, human history, and wildlife through engaging text and vibrant photos. Along the way, special features highlight the park’s climate, animal species, notable locations, and more. The book ends with a full-spread feature that includes a timeline, a fact list, and an animal food web.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000021238154

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Gallatin Range Consolidation and Protection Act by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Pdf