Searching for Yellowstone Ecology And Wonder

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.

Paul Schullery, former director of the American Museum of Fly Fishing, is the author, co-author, or editor of more than thirty books, including American Fly-Fishing: A History (1987), Royal Coachman (1999), Lewis and Clark among the Grizzlies (2002) and, with Lee Whittlesey, Yellowstone's Creation Myth (2003). He lives in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming.

Illustrations

viii

Preface

xiii

Introduction

1

(173)

1. Ancient Yellowstone

6

(11)

2. Things a Little Incredible

17

(14)

3. Wild Romantic Splendor

31

(20)

4. A Public Park

51

(17)

5. Ecological Holocaust

68

(21)

6. Privations and Inconveniences

89

(19)

7. A Single Rock

108

(20)

8. Big Men with Fine Personalities

128

(20)

9. Reasonable Illusions

148

(26)

10. The High Price of Success

174

(19)

11. Greater Yellowstone

193

(24)

12. Holocene Park

217

(31)

13. Imagining Yellowstone

248

(15)

Epilogue

263

(6)

Notes

269

(52)

Acknowledgements

321

(2)

Index

323

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