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<p><P>Chase asserts that Yellowstone is being destroyed by the very people assigned to protect it: the National Park Service. Named as one of “ten books that mattered” in the 1980s by Outside magazine and a book of continuing crucial relevance. Index; map.</p> <h3>Publishers Weekly</h3> <p>Beavers have disappeared; their prime food, aspen and willow, have drastically declined. Cougars, bobcats and wolves are no longer here, victims of predator control from earlier times. Deer, moose and bighorn sheep are scarce; black bears are seldom seen by visitors, and the grizzly is threatened with extinction. Meanwhile, bison and elk flourish, to the detriment of rangeland. Wildlife management in Yellowstone has been under fire for decades. Chase reviews the park's history and examines vacillating policies and political pressures that affect the park's management. Attracting visitors is the overriding priority, he finds; their safety is the guiding philosophy, and rangers are mere policemen. Chase tells the story of Grant Village, a development sited in prime grizzly habitat; he discusses the friction between rangers and naturalists, the exclusion of university biologists (tho
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- Author
- Alston Chase; with an epilogue by the author
- Publisher
- San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780156720366
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Economics, Science, Management
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (41 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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