Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem - Redefining America's Wilderness Heritage

In this important book, experts in science, economics, and law discuss key resource managment issues in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem---among them the managment of fire, elk, wolves, and bison---using them as starting points to debate the matter in which humans should interact with the environment of this region. Generously illustrated with special archival photographs of the Yellowstone area, the book will be the major source of information on this area and a valuable resource for worldwide wildland preservation for years to come. This edition contains a postscript written specifically to bring readers up to date on developments affecting the Yellowstone ecosystem between 1990 and 1993. Zusammenfassung In 1872, Congress designated Yellowstone National Park as the world's first National Park. In this book, various experts in science, economics and law discuss key resource management issues in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, and how humans should interact with the environment of this area.

Product details

• Authors: Robert B. Keiter
• Assisted by: Mark S. Boyce (Editor), Boyce Mark S. (Editor), Robert B. Keiter (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.1994
• EAN: 9780300059274
• ISBN: 978-0-300-05927-4
• No. of pages: 442
• Series: Redefining America's Wildernes
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; USA, NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Pollution & threats to the environment, Environmental Management, United States of America, USA, Pollution and threats to the environment, Environmental science, engineering and technology