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Engineering Eden : the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature / Jordan Fisher Smith.
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- Author(s): Smith, Jordan Fisher
- Language:
English- Publication Information:
New York : Crown, [2016]- Publication Date:
2016- Physical Description:
x, 370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm- Publication Type:
Book- Document Type:
Bibliographies; Non-fiction- Subject Terms:
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Yellowstone National Park -- History -- 20th century; Bear attacks -- Yellowstone National Park -- History -- 20th century; Violent deaths -- Yellowstone National Park -- History -- 20th century; Negligence -- History -- 20th century; Trials -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century; National parks and reserves -- History; Environmentalism -- History- Subject Terms:
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- Availability: 4 Holdings
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- Additional Information
- Publication Information: First edition.
- Abstract: Summary: "When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away from humans, but what was revealed as the trial unfolded was just how fruitless our efforts to regulate nature in the parks had always been. The proceedings drew to the witness stand some of the most important figures in twentieth century wilderness management, including the eminent zoologist A. Starker Leopold, who had produced a landmark conservationist document in the 1950s, and all-American twin researchers John and Frank Craighead, who ran groundbreaking bear studies at Yellowstone. Their testimony would help decide whether the government owed the Walker family restitution for Harry's death, but it would also illuminate decades of patchwork efforts to preserve an idea of nature that had never existed in the first place. In this remarkable excavation of American environmental history, nature writer and former park ranger Jordan Fisher Smith uses Harry Walker's story to tell the larger narrative of the futile, sometimes fatal, attempts to remake wilderness in the name of preserving it."--Publisher's website.
- Content Notes: Part I: American Eden. Los Angeles -- American Eden -- Yosemite and Yellowstone -- Appalachian spring -- Frank -- The balance of nature -- Berkeley -- Claypool -- Smitty -- Trout Creek -- Part II: Natural regulation. The big kill -- Starker -- Prometheus -- Observe artificiality in any form -- Reconstruction -- Cole -- The night of the grizzlies -- Natural control -- Bad blood -- Bear management committee -- Firehole -- The temptation of Starker Leopold -- Natural regulation -- Part III: Take it easy. Last straws -- Take it easy -- Old Faithful - The search for Harry Walker -- Part IV: Human nature. Martha Shell -- B-1 -- The disciple -- The verdict -- The appeal.
- Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [334]-356) and index.
1 2 5 17 - ISBN: 9780307454263 :
- Accession Number: 2016008169
- Accession Number: 944408622
- Accession Number: ccp.986024
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- Branch: Main Library - Non-Fiction Area
- Call Number: 978.752 SMITH
- Branch: John's Island Library - Non-Fiction Area
- Call Number: 978.752 SMITH
- Branch: St. Andrews Library - Non-Fiction Area
- Call Number: 978.752 SMITH
- Branch: Dorchester Road Library - Non-Fiction Area
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