Entrée principale:

Chase, Alston.

Titre et auteur:

Playing God in Yellowstone : the destruction of America's first national park / by Alston Chase.

Édition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©1986.

Description:

xvi, 446 pages : map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-427) and index.
The state of nature in Yellowstone -- The range -- Jonas and the beaver -- The perils of playing God -- Killing animals to save them -- An environmntal ideal and the biology of desperation -- A solution to the elk problem -- Nature takes its course -- The secret of Yancey's Hole -- Growing apples in Eden -- The wildlife -- The wolf mystery -- Rendezvous at Death Gulch -- The grizzley and the juggernaut -- The rangers -- Grant village and the politics of tourism -- Gumshoes and posy pickers -- The deep hole gap -- The environmentalists -- The new pantheists -- The subverted science -- The hubris commandos -- The California cosmologists -- The land ethic -- Conclusion -- Yellowstone elegy.

ISBN:

0871130254
9780871130259

Sujet:

Nature conservation Yellowstone National Park.
Wildlife management Yellowstone National Park.
Nature Conservation Yellowstone National Park.
Wildlife management
Nature conservation
Management
Naturschutz
Yellowstone National Park Management.
Yellowstone National Park Gestion.
United States Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 138967
Cote: ID:86-B9583
Statut: Disponible