The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Author: Robert B. Keiter

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1994-04-05

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780300059274

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In 1872, Congress designated Yellowstone National Park as the world's first National Park. In this book, various experts in science, economics and law discuss key resource management issues in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, and how humans should interact with the environment of this area.

Yellowstone's Destabilized Ecosystem
Yellowstone's Destabilized Ecosystem

Author: Frederic H. Wagner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-05-25

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0195148215

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"The beloved Yellowstone National Park underwent a management shift in 1969 that drastically altered its landscape. This book comes at a time when scientific results are sometimes withheld so that they do not challenge policy positions. The author charges that Yellowstone-supported research has produced a faulty ecological paradigm, whether consciously or not, in order to maintain status quo of the Park's "natural-regulation" policy." "Wagner's ecosystem model of the Park's northern range focuses on a low-elevation region of the Park where a large herd of Rocky Mountain elk winters. His study spans 132 years of ecological, hydrologic, archaeological, photographic, and historic evidence and synthesizes the herd's impact over time."--BOOK JACKET.