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3) Engineering Eden: the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature
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When 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. Tracing...
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"The remotest place in the country, outside of Alaska, is a region in Yellowstone National Park ironically named the Thorofare, for its historic role as a route traversed by fur trappers. A Week in Yellowstone's Thorofare is a history and celebration of this wild place, set within a week-long expedition that the author took with three friends in 2014. Drawing upon the first-person accounts of rangers who have patrolled the area, archival documents,...
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This typewritten notebook contains proposed plans by certain private interests to use the park or its resources for commercial ends. It is divided into three parts: proposed irrigation projects within the Yellowstone National Park ; the Idaho projects; and the Montana project. The Idaho plans in their earliest form involved the use of the four largest lakes in the Park, the damming of Yellowstone Lake for storage, the construction of a tunnel to convey...
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Following World War II, Yellowstone administrators began to receive increasing pressure from local interests to plow park roads in winter. This pressure culminated in a congressional hearing on the matter in Jackson Hole in 1967, with virtually all who gave or sent statements supporting the plowing of the Park?s roads. Yellowstone administrators did not believe that plowing the Park roads was in the best interest of the Park or its visitors,...