Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1991.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Keiter, Robert B., 1946-
• Boyce, Mark S.
• Leopold, Luna B. (Luna Bergere), 1915-2006

Description

xvii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

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
• Ecology
• Environmental policy
• Fire ecology
• Wildlife conservation
• Wildlife reintroduction
• Ökosystem
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Umweltpolitik
• Naturschutz
• Ökologie
• Feuer
• United States > Yellowstone National Park Region
• Yellowstone National Park > Region
• Yellowstone National Park (Region)

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers from a symposium on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, hosted by the University of Wyoming in Apr., 1989.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 [and others] -- 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.

ISBN

• 0300049706
• 9780300049701
• 0300059272
• 9780300059274

LCCN

91010623

OCLC

• ocm23382455
• 23382455
• SCSB-9618280

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library