Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01G7RWRUU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Great historical accounting of defining moments and often tragic events subsequent to man's intervention in nature!" according to Dionisia. I found this book by Jordan Fisher Smith to be an intriguing historical accounting of the various interactions and interventions of humans in nature, specifically the National Parks and the consequences, both intended and unintended that are left behind. This true tale of park and wildlife management and the trag. "Detailed Insightful Perspectives" according to Scott C. I was working at Old Faithful when this happened and know many of the details. Grizzlies were in our NPS housing area every night. Special precautions were in place when you left a residence after dark. One night there was a 900-pound grizzly on the front porch of the transit hut as we peered out the window think. A splendid and insightful book. Jordan Fisher Smith has written a magnificent book. Obviously, the hook here is the encounter between a grizzly and a human, with an unfortunate but predictable outcome. Mr. Smith, however, takes the reader behind the curtain into the inner workings of the National Park Service to discover the back-stories that c
Starker Leopold, who had produced a landmark conservationist document in the 1950s, and all-American twin researchers John and Frank Craighead, who ran groundbreaking bear studies at Yellowstone. The fascinating story of the century-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness, as told through the prism of a tragic death at Yellowstone. Moving across time and between Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier National Parks, Engineering Eden shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by one fundamental problem - that the idea of what is "natural" dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it, leaving us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are acceptable in trying to preserve it. Their testimonies would help decide whether the government owed the Walker family restitution for Harry's death, but it would also illuminate decades o