Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone: Controversy and Change in an Iconic Ecosystem

The story of how Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the world's first national park, has become synonymous with nature conservation-and an examination of today's challenges to preserve the region's wilderness heritage.

For more than 150 years, the Yellowstone region-now widely known as the twenty-three million acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem-has played a prominent role in the United States' nature conservation agenda. In this book, Robert B. Keiter, an award-winning public land law and...