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The Greater Yellowstone ecosystem : redefining America's wilderness heritage / Robert B. Keiter and Mark S. Boyce, editors ; with a foreword by Luna B. Leopold.

Keiter, Robert B., 1946- (Added Author). Boyce, Mark S., 1950- (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0300049706 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780300049701 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xvii, 428 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Papers from a symposium on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, hosted by the University of Wyoming in Apr., 1989.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
An introduction to the ecosystem management debate / Robert B. Keiter -- Defining the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem / Duncan T. Patten -- Yellowstone in transition / John J. Craighead -- Recreation fees and the Yellowstone forests / Randal O'Toole -- "Faithful execution" of the laws governing Greater Yellowstone : whose law? whose priorities? / William J. Lockhart -- Ecosystem management : will national forests be "managed" into national parks? / Karen J. Budd -- Ecosystems and property rights in Greater Yellowstone : the legal system in transition / Joseph L. Sax -- The Yellowstone fire controversy / Dennis H. Knight -- Reality and opportunity in the Yellowstone fires of 1988 / John D. Varley and Paul Schullery -- Observed and anticipated effects of forest fire on Yellowsstone stream ecosystems / G. Wayne Minshall and James T. Brock -- Should management ignitions be used in Yellowstone National Park? / James K. Brown -- A Canadian view of fire management in the Greater Yellowstone area / Nikita Lopoukhine -- Vegetation and elk response to prescribed burning in south-central Montana / Fred G. Van Dyke, Jeffrey P. Dibenedetto, and Steven C. Thomas -- Natural regulation or the control of nature? / Mark S. Boyce -- The concept of overgrazing and its application to Yellowstone's Northern Range / Michael B. Coughenour and Francis J. Singer -- Tall-willow communities on Yellowstone's Northern Range : a test of the "natural-regulation" paradigm / Steve W. Chadde and Charles E. Kay -- Summer range and elk population dynamics in Yellowstone National Park / Evelyn H. Merrill and Mark S. Boyce -- Brucellosis in free-ranging bison : three perspectives / E. Tom Thorne, Mary Meagher, and Robert Hillman -- A prehistoric perspective on the Northern Range / Cathy Whitlock, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and Daniel R. Engstrom -- Returning the wolf to Yellowstone / L. David Mech -- The ungulate prey base for wolves in Yellowstone National Park / Francis J. Singer -- Population dynamics and home range changes in a colonizing wolf population / Robert R. Ream ... [et al.] -- Public attitudes about wolf restoration in Yellowstone National Park / Alistair J. Bath -- Greater Yellowstone's future : ecosystem management in a wilderness environment / Robert B. Keiter and Mark S. Boyce.
Subject:
Ecology > Yellowstone National Park Region > Congresses.
Environmental policy > Yellowstone National Park Region > Congresses.
Wildlife conservation > Yellowstone National Park Region > Congresses.
Fire ecology > Yellowstone National Park Region > Congresses.
Wildlife reintroduction > Yellowstone National Park Region > Congresses.

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