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100	1		_aSmith, Jordan Fisher, _eauthor. _9313901
245	1	0	_aEngineering Eden : _bthe true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature / _cJordan Fisher Smith.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bCrown, _c[2016]
300			_ax, 370 pages : _billustrations (some color), map ; _c25 cm
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337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
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520	2		_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aWhen 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		_aPrologue -- 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	_aYellowstone National Park _xManagement _xHistory _y20th century. _9313902
651		0	_aYellowstone National Park _xEnvironmental conditions _xHistory _y20th century. _9313903
650		0	_aNature _xEffect of human beings on _zYellowstone National Park _xHistory _y20th century. _9313904
650		0	_aBear attacks _zYellowstone National Park _xHistory _y20th century. _9313905
650		0	_aViolent deaths _zYellowstone National Park _xHistory _y20th century. _9313906
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bNational Park Service _vTrials, litigation, etc. _9313907
650		0	_aNegligence _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century. _9313908
650		0	_aTrials _zCalifornia _zLos Angeles _xHistory _y20th century. _9313909
650		0	_aNational parks and reserves _zUnited States _xHistory. _910263
650		0	_aEnvironmentalism _zUnited States _xHistory. _945440
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