Wagner, one of our most distinguished wildlife biologists, is a strong critic of ecological practices in the national parks. This book provides an assessment of the ecological history of Yellowstone's northern range, since before the park existed, showing the impact of US Park Service policies on the health of the areas they oversee. He demonstrates that elk had been historically rare throughout the region and that overgrazing by elk has seriously degraded the landscape and altered the structure of the area. This is a major contribution to reconstructing the ecology of this region over the course of the past 500 years. It is also a critique of US Park Service management policies and their stewardship of the nation's most cherished natural areas. Wagner's book will generate substantial attention and debate both in the scientific and policy/management communities.

Yellowstone's Destabilized Ecosystem: Elk Effects, Science, and Policy Conflict

History

WAGNER, Frederic H.

Americas

Oxford University Press

Experiments in Gothic Structure

WINDWARD, LEICESTER

Vividly depicts the harsh beauty and colorful variety of the desert environment, revealing the extreme and often amazing adaptations of its wildlife

Wildlife Of The Deserts

Science & Math

Sbrams

Predator Control and the Sheep Industry: The Role of Science in Policy Formation (NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY SERIES)

Iowa State Pr

This volume presents the results of a five-year study of wildlife-management policies in national parks. It synthesizes interviews with individuals inside and outside the National Park Service, provides a comprehensive review of published and unpublished literature, and draws on the collective experience of the authors with various units of the system over the past three decades. Among the topics examined are: the structure and history of the National Park System and Service wildlife "problems" in the parks the role of science in formulating policies and in management recommendations for changes in policy formulation, management, and scientific research procedures

Wildlife Policies in the U.S. National Parks

Foresta, Ronald

Gill, Richard Bruce

McCullough, Dale Richard

Pelton, Michael R.

Porter, William F.

Salwasser, Hal

Biological Sciences

Island Press

This volume presents the results of a five-year study of wildlife-management policies in national parks. It synthesizes interviews with individuals inside and outside the National Park Service, provides a comprehensive review of published and unpublished literature, and draws on the collective experience of the authors with various units of the system over the past three decades. Among the topics examined are: the structure and history of the National Park System and Service wildlife "problems" in the parks the role of science in formulating policies and in management recommendations for changes in policy formulation, management, and scientific research procedures

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