The U.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service

Author: Harold K. Steen

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780295983738

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The U.S. Forest Service celebrates its centennial in 2005. With a new preface by the author, this edition of Harold K. Steen’s classic history (originally published in 1976) provides a broad perspective on the Service’s administrative and policy controversies and successes. Steen updates the book with discussions of a number of recent concerns, among them the spotted owl issue; wilderness and roadless areas; new research on habitat, biodiversity, and fire prevention; below-cost timber sales; and workplace diversity in a male-oriented field.

Clovis
Clovis

Author: Robson Bonnichsen

Publisher: Center for the Study of the First American

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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The Destruction of the Bison
The Destruction of the Bison

Author: Andrew C. Isenberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9780521003483

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This study, first published in 2000, examines the cultural and ecological causes of the near-extinction of the bison.

The Wolves of Mount McKinley
The Wolves of Mount McKinley

Author: Adolph Murie

Publisher: UBS Publishers' Distributors

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780295962030

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In the time of Lewis and Clark, wolves were abundant throughout North America from the Arctic regions to Mexico. But man declared war on this cunning and powerful animal when cattle replaced the buffalo on the western plains, reducing the wolf's range to those few areas in the Far North where economic necessity did not call for its extinction. Between 1939 and 1941, Adolph Murie, one of North America's greatest naturalists, made a field study of the relationship between wolves and Dall sheep in Mount McKinley National Park (since renamed Denali National Park) which has come to be respected as a classic work of natural history. In this study Murie not only described the life cycle of Alaskan wolves in greater detail than has ever been done, but he discovered a great deal about the entire ecological network of predator and prey. The issues surrounding the survival of the wolf and its prey are more important today than ever, and Murie helps us understand the careful balance that must be maintained to ensure that these magnificent animals prosper. Originally available only in government publications which are long out-of-print, this account of a much maligned animal is now available in its first popular edition.