To Save The Wild Bison: Life On The Edge In Yellowstone - Hardcover

Franke, Mary Ann

 
9780806136837: To Save The Wild Bison: Life On The Edge In Yellowstone
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0806136839 ISBN 13: 9780806136837
Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

<div><p>Although the American bison was saved from near-extinction in the nineteenth century, today almost all herds are managed like livestock. The Yellowstone area is the only place in the United States where wild bison have been present since before the first Euro-Americans arrived. But these bison pose risks to property and people when they roam outside the park, including the possibility that they can spread the abortion-inducing disease brucellosis to cattle. Yet measures to constrain the population threaten their status as wild animals.</p><p>Mary Ann Franke’s <em>To Save the Wild Bison</em> is the first book to examine the ecological and political aspects of the bison controversy and how it reflects changing attitudes toward wildlife. The debate has evoked strong emotions from all sides, including park officials, environmentalists, livestock growers, and American Indians. In describing political compromises among competing positions, Franke does not so much champion a cause as critique the process by which federal and state officials have made and carried out bison management policies. She shows that science, however valuable a tool, cannot by itself resolve what is ultimately a choice among conflicting values.</p></div>

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mary Ann Franke, a writer drawn to the intersection of nature and culture, has worked in Yellowstone National Park for nine summers. Author of Yellowstone in the Afterglow: Lessons from the Fires (2000), she migrates seasonally to Sedona, Arizona.

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Verlag
University of Oklahoma Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2005
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0806136839
ISBN 13 
9780806136837
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
328
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