LEADER 00000cam a2200577Ii 4500 001 ocn947858366 003 OCoLC 005 20160621021346.0 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 090713s2016 nyu o 000 0 eng d 020 9780307454287|q(electronic bk.) 020 0307454282|q(electronic bk.) 028 01 EB00622965|bRecorded Books 035 (OCoLC)947858366 037 D7494D2A-1373-484F-8ED3-02768805CD92|bOverDrive, Inc. |nhttp://www.overdrive.com 040 RECBK|beng|cRECBK|dOCLCO|dTEFOD|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dOCLCO|dBKL |dUtOrBLW 049 BKLA 082 04 978.7/52033|223 099 eBOOK 100 1 Smith, Jordan Fisher. 245 10 Engineering Eden|h[electronic resource] :|bthe true story of a violent death, a trial, and a fight over how to restore nature /|cJordan Fisher Smith. 264 1 New York :|bCrown,|c2016. 300 1 online resource. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file 520 The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. 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. Tracing a course from the founding of the national parks through the tangled twentieth-century growth of the conservationist movement, Smith gives the lie to the portrayal of national parks as Edenic wonderlands unspoiled until the arrival of Europeans, and shows how virtually every attempt to manage nature in the parks has only created cascading effects that require even more management. Moving across time and between Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier national parks, Engineering Eden shows how efforts at wilderness management have always been undone by one fundamental problem--that the idea of what is "wild" dissolves as soon as we begin to examine it, leaving us with little framework to say what wilderness should look like and which human interventions are acceptable in trying to preserve it. In the tradition of John McPhee's The Control of Nature and Alan Burdick's Out of Eden, Jordan Fisher Smith has produced a powerful work of popular science and environmental history, grappling with critical issues that we have even now yet to resolve. 588 0 Online resource; title from READ title page (OverDrive, June 15, 2016). 610 10 United States.|bNational Park Service|xTrials, litigation, etc. 650 0 Nature|xEffect of human beings on|zYellowstone National Park|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Violent deaths|zYellowstone National Park|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Negligence|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 Trials|zCalifornia|zLos Angeles|xHistory|y20th century. 650 0 History. 650 7 HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.|2bisacsh 650 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00958235 651 0 Yellowstone National Park|xManagement|xHistory|y20th century. 651 0 Yellowstone National Park|xEnvironmental conditions |xHistory|y20th century. 655 4 Electronic books. 710 2 Recorded Books, Inc. 710 2 OverDrive, Inc. 856 4 |3Excerpt|uhttp://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d7494d2a- 1373-484f-8ed3-02768805cd92&.epub-sample.overdrive.com 856 4 |3Image|uhttp://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/ 0111-1/{D7494D2A-1373-484F-8ED3-02768805CD92}Img100.jpg 856 40 |uhttp://digitalbooks.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/ ContentDetails.htm?ID=D7494D2A-1373-484F-8ED3-02768805CD92 |zAn electronic book accessible online 948 MARS 994 C0|bBKL