Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions

Science and the Perception of Nature

James A. Pritchard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

434 Seiten

2022 | Second Edition
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496233059 (ISBN)

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Preserving Yellowstone’s Natural Conditions describes in fascinating detail the historical origins and development of wildlife management in Yellowstone National Park, alongside shifting understandings of nature in science and culture. James A. Pritchard traces the idea of “natural conditions” through time, from the introduction of this concept by early ecologists in the 1930s. He tells several overlooked stories of Yellowstone wildlife, including a sensational scientific hunt for bears with bow and arrow, and the episode of the predator pelicans, which facilitated a fundamental shift toward protection of all wildlife in Yellowstone, and for the National Park Service as a whole. A prolonged debate regarding the elk herd on Yellowstone’s northern range is addressed, along with the origins of the notion of natural regulation, and the reasons for ending direct reductions of elk. This story emphasizes how ecological science came to Yellowstone and to the National Park Service, subsequently developing over a period of decades.

In the new afterword to this book Pritchard summarizes recent developments in wildlife science and management-such as the “ecology of fear” and trophic cascades-and discusses historical continuities in the role of the park as a wildlife refuge and the inestimable values of the park for wildlife conservation.

James A. Pritchard is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Ecology at Montana State University and an adjunct associate professor emeritus at Iowa State University. He is the coauthor of A Field Guide to the Butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and A Green and Permanent Land: Ecology and Agriculture in the Twentieth Century.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Preservationist Yellowstone, 1872–1915
2. Conservationist Thought and Yellowstone, 1916–1930
3. The Wildlife Division and the Ecology of Intervention
4. Managing the Natural During the Postwar Era
5. A Natural Yellowstone, 1963–1974
6. A Greater Yellowstone, 1975–1995
Epilogue
Afterword
Notes
Sources
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	42 photographs, 2 maps, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-13	9781496233059 / 9781496233059
Zustand	Neuware