Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness - Softcover

Schullery, (Retired) Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972152210 ISBN 13: 9780972152211

Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press, 2004

Synopsis

Schullery's book details the ecological history of Yellowstone National Park.

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Review

"In Searching for Yellowstone [Schullery] has given us a refreshingly unhyperbolic look at the place he loves, and has thus notably honored its beauty, its mystery, its people, its past--and its future." --New York Times Book Review "The wondrous and subtle cultural landscape of Yellowstone is lovingly detailed in this comprehensive, level-headed study." --Kirkus Reviews "Searching for Yellowstone is . . . a guide to an inner park that few of us have been lucky enough to visit." --Audubon

From the Back Cover

Yellowstone National Park is beloved passionately and, as with all objects of passion, it generates heated feelings and has for over 125 years. Created in 1872, Yellowstone has been at the center of efforts to conserve the nation's once vast western wilderness. In turn Yellowstone's history has demonstrated how complex those efforts to conserve it have been. As Schullery writes, "We inherited this great humming thing . . . Ever since then we have imagined ourselves wise enough to control it and have rushed to judge what is wrong with it. And every time we looked hard enough, we discovered that there was more wrong with our judgment than with Yellowstone." This marvelously detailed book skillfully and objectively traces the park's social and ecological history from Pleistocene times to the present. Searching for Yellowstone is an absolute "must read" for anyone wanting to understand why the park is engraved in the American consciousness.

About this edition

• Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0972152210
• ISBN 13: 9780972152211
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360