Natural and unnatural; wild and cultural
Date
2001
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Brigham Young University, publisher
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Abstract
Yellowstone's mission is clarified by analysis of the "natural" and the "unnatural." "Wild nature" denotes, outside culture, evolutionary and ecological natural history present on the landscape, jeopardized by numerous human influences, including exotic species. Natural processes can be preserved because of, rather than in spite of, park management. Yellowstone provides an opportunity to encounter and to conserve nature as an end in itself, past, present, and future.
Description
Originally the Aubrey L. Haines Distinguished Lecture at the Fifth Biennial Scientific Conference on the Great Yellowstone Ecosystem, National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park, WY, October 11-13, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (page 276).
Includes bibliographical references (page 276).
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Subject
management
exotics
ecology
evolution
nature
natural
wild
pristine
wilderness
culture