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06132cam a2200493 i 4500 |
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ocn944408622 |
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OCoLC |
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20180722223325.0 |
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160308s2016 nyuab b 001 0deng |
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| LC control number |
2016008169 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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NFG |
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921863844 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780307454263 |
| Qualifying information |
(hardback) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0307454266 |
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(hardback) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)944408622 |
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(OCoLC)921863844 |
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pcc |
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n-us-id |
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n-us-mt |
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n-us-wy |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
978.752 |
| Item number |
S652 |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
NFGA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Smith, Jordan Fisher, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
313901 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Engineering Eden : |
| Remainder of title |
the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Jordan Fisher Smith. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Crown, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
[2016] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
x, 370 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations (some color), map ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content Type Term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"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"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
When 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. 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. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Prologue -- American Eden. Los Angeles ; American Eden ; Yosemite and Yellowstone ; Appalachian spring ; Frank ; The balance of nature ; Berkeley ; Claypool ; Smitty ; Trout Creek -- Natural regulation. The big kill ; Starker ; Prometheus ; Observable artificiality in any form ; Reconstruction ; Cole ; The night of the grizzlies ; Natural control ; Bad blood ; Bear management committee ; Firehold ; The temptation of Starker Leopold ; Natural regulation -- Take it easy. Last straws ; Take it easy ; Old Faithful ; The search for Harry Walker -- Human nature. Martha shell ; B-1 ; The discipline ; The verdict ; The appeal -- Epilogue -- Afterword. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Yellowstone National Park |
| General subdivision |
Management |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
313902 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Yellowstone National Park |
| General subdivision |
Environmental conditions |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
313903 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Nature |
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Effect of human beings on |
| Geographic subdivision |
Yellowstone National Park |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
313904 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Bear attacks |
| Geographic subdivision |
Yellowstone National Park |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
313905 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Violent deaths |
| Geographic subdivision |
Yellowstone National Park |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
313906 |
| 610 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
United States. |
| Subordinate unit |
National Park Service |
| Form subdivision |
Trials, litigation, etc. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
313907 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Negligence |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
313908 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Trials |
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California |
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Los Angeles |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
313909 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
National parks and reserves |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
10263 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Environmentalism |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
45440 |
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C0 |
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NFG |
