The Bears of Grand Teton

A Natural and Cultural History

Sue Consolo-Murphy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

282 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496236272 (ISBN)

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The Bears of Grand Teton is the first comprehensive history of bears, black and grizzly, and their interactions with people in Grand Teton National Park and the surrounding area of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is also a personal account by Sue Consolo-Murphy, who spent thirty years as a wildlife manager for the National Park Service.

Consolo-Murphy focuses on the natural, cultural, and administrative histories of bears in and around Grand Teton National Park and the nearby John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, paying particular attention to bears’ interactions with livestock. Entertaining and educational, The Bears of Grand Teton also explores the phenomenon of social media celebrity bears-such as Grizzly 399, the world’s most famous bear-and the challenges of listing and removing grizzly bears from Endangered Species Act protection.

Sue Consolo-Murphy is retired from Grand Teton National Park and John D. Rockefeller Jr. Memorial Parkway, where she worked as chief of science and resource management from 2003 to 2019, after decades with the National Park Service at various locations. She was the 2013 recipient of the National Park Service Director’s Award for Excellence in Natural Resource Management and was a 2008 honoree of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee’s award for significant contributions to grizzly bear recovery.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. A Bear Beginning
2. Where Bears Belong
3. Bear Management in the Early Park: 1929–1950
4. Boom Times and Missing Grizzlies: The 1950s–1970s
5. Making the List: The 1980s–1990s
6. The Life of a Bear
7. Dump Days
8. Berries and More
9. Bears and Livestock, Part 1: Sheep
10. Bears and Livestock, Part 2: Cattle
11. Wake-Up Call for a New Century
12. Bear Danger
13. Guns, Snares, and Bears
14. The (Not-So-) Forgotten Parkway
15. Science and Teton Bears
16. Bears in the ’Hood
17. Making a Difference
18. Celebrity
19. The Unknowable Bears

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	America's Public Lands
Zusatzinfo	18 photographs, 2 illustrations, 4 maps, 3 tables, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781496236272 / 9781496236272
Zustand	Neuware