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Past and Future Yellowstones - Finding Our Way in Wonderland (Paperback)
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Past and Future Yellowstones - Finding Our Way in Wonderland (Paperback)
Series: Wallace Stegner Lecture
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Loot Price R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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Drawing on historical perspectives, personal excursions, and
decades of professional research and work in the field, Paul
Schullery illuminates many of the possible truths embedded within
the natural and cultural reality that is Yellowstone National Park.
By varying the scale of observation-from a single encounter between
a cow elk and a grizzly bear to the sweeping forces of
evolution-Schullery celebrates the park's history and future
potential as a laboratory of ideas. It is, as he states, a place
with "layers of meaning waiting to be explored . . . many possible
truths to be weighed." He thus invites us all to participate in the
"Yellowstone conversation." According to Schullery, national parks
allow for the study of relatively unmanipulated ecological
processes, even amidst civilization's increasing influence. They
act as reservoirs for water, wildlife, and essential wildness. The
uncertainties inherent in wild landscapes and in the unfolding idea
of Yellowstone allow scholarly and popular dialogues to advance
management practices and public understanding. Through this
inquiry, Schullery establishes a framework for approaching
conservation and the experience of America'sgreat wildlands. Paul
Schullery delivered this lecture on March 26, 2014, at the 19th
annual symposium sponsored by the Wallace Stegner Center for Land,
Resources and the Environment at the S. J. Quinney College of Law
at the University of Utah.
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