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  • Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone

    Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem

    The story of how Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the world's first national park, has become synonymous with nature conservation—and an examination of today's challenges to preserve the region's wilderness heritage.For more than 150 years, the Yellowstone region—now widely known as the twenty-three million acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—has played a prominent role in the United States' ... Leer más

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  • Keeping Faith with Nature

    Ecosystems, Democracy, and America?s Public Lands

    As the twenty-first century dawns, public land policy is entering a new era. This timely book examines the historical, scientific, political, legal, and institutional developments that are changing management priorities and policies—developments that compel us to view the public lands as an integrated ecological entity and a key biodiversity stronghold.Once the background is set, each chapter ... Leer más

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  • The Wyoming State Constitution

    Series series Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the United States
    In The Wyoming State Constitution, Robert B. Keiter provides a comprehensive guide to Wyoming's colorful constitutional history. Featuring an outstanding analysis of the state's governing charter,the book includes an in-depth, section-by-section analysis of the entire constitution, detailing important changes that have been made since its initial drafting. This treatment, which includes a list of ... Leer más

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  • To Conserve Unimpaired

    The Evolution of the National Park Idea

    When the national park system was first established in 1916, the goal "to conserve unimpaired" seemed straightforward. But Robert Keiter argues that parks have always served a variety of competing purposes, from wildlife protection and scientific discovery to tourism and commercial development. In this trenchant analysis, he explains how parks must be managed more effectively to meet increasing ... Leer más

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    Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem

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    The story of how Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the world’s first national park, has become synonymous with nature conservation—and an examination of today’s challenges to preserve the region’s wilderness heritage.For more than 150 years, the Yellowstone region—now widely known as the twenty-three million acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—has played a prominent role in the United States’ ... Leer más

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  • Crossing the Next Meridian

    Land, Water, and the Future of the West

    In Crossing the Next Meridian, Charles F. Wilkinson, an expert on federal public lands, Native American issues, and the West's arcane water laws explains some of the core problems facing the American West now and in the years to come. He examines the outmoded ideas that pervade land use and resource allocation and argues that significant reform of Western law is needed to combat desertification ... Leer más

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  • Water War in the Klamath Basin

    Macho Law, Combat Biology, and Dirty Politics

    In the drought summer of 2001, a simmering conflict between agricultural and environmental interests in southern Oregon’s Upper Klamath Basin turned into a guerrilla war of protests, vandalism, and apocalyptic rhetoric when the federal Bureau of Reclamation shut down the headgates of the Klamath Project to conserve water needed by endangered species. This was the first time in U.S. history that ... Leer más

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  • Wildlife Politics

    Attitudes towards charismatic animals such as tigers, lions, bears and wolves vary greatly and change over time, resulting in bitter political debates. This comprehensive book identifies and analyses the factors that influence policies across the globe, highlighting how this impacts conservation as a whole. Issues such as overexploitation, hunting, ecotourism and the struggle to prevent illegal ... Leer más

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  • Losing Eden

    An Environmental History of the American West

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    Series series Environment and Region in the American West
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  • Theodore Roosevelt & Bison Restoration on the Great Plains

    This history chronicles the 19th century plan to reintroduce wild bison into Western Montana and the rise of Roosevelt's conservation movement.In the late 1800s, the rapid depletion of the American bison population prompted calls for the preservation of wildlife and wild lands in North America. Following a legendary hunt for the last wild bison in central Montana, Dr. William Hornady sought to ... Leer más

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  • Cities in the Wilderness

    A New Vision of Land Use in America

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    In this brilliant, gracefully written, and important new book, former Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Arizona Bruce Babbitt brings fresh thought--and fresh air--to questions of how we can build a future we want to live in.We've all experienced America's changing natural landscape as the integrity of our forests, seacoasts, and river valleys succumbs to strip malls, new roads, and ... Leer más

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