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Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Comprised of two national parks, three national wildlife refuges, parts of six national forests, and eleven wilderness areas, Greater Yellowstone is a vast array of differing environments and geographies.
In a series of essays, Turner explores this wonderland, venturing on twelve separate trips in all seasons...
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"Explore the wonder, politics, and wilderness of one of America's most revered and popular national parks with conservation writer Gary Ferguson. In Hawks Rest, Ferguson spends a wild season as a cabin tender for the Forest Service, hiking 140 miles to the most remote corner of the lower forty-eight states. Over the course of three months, he encounters wilderness outfitters doing all it takes to keep their business running, troubled teenagers discovering...
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Blends together history and nature writing to provide a new perspective on Yellowstone and what it has come to represent, explaining the park's relationship to America throughout history.
"As America's premier national park, Yellowstone today stands for wilderness, ecological science, and natural beauty. But those associations, and others, have evolved since the park's founding in 1872. Evocatively written and masterfully researched, [this book]...
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2013.
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The essential nature guide to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks was written by a local wildlife biologist and eco-tour guide. More than 1.200 color photographs with concise descriptions reveal the richness of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. This is the definitive field identification guide to the region's rocks, minerals, geysers, waterfalls, mushrooms, trees. wildflowers, insects, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds, mammals, tracks and...
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"In the reading of Rick Lamplugh's latest work, we are transported to the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park. As a naturalist, Rick knows his biology and weaves into the narrative important emerging science; the wolf figures large in this wild world, exemplifying top-down ecological cascades. He describes the stark beauty and treacherous cruelty of nature with an honest voice that leaves no detail unsaid, be it exquisite or morbid. It's not...
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2013
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The DISCOVER THE WILD educational series was developed to enable students to not only learn more about wildlife and their environments in a classroom setting, but also see them up close and study them on experiential field trips into the wild. The program is designed to make students and others more aware of the natural world and connect them to nature by helping them to better understand its interrelationships. And it has the endorsement of nine,...
