Yosemite
eBook - ePub

Yosemite

The Embattled Wilderness

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Yosemite

The Embattled Wilderness

About this book

How should a national park be managed? Among all of the debates affecting America's national parks, none has proved more enduring. Nor has any park, Alfred Runte reminds us, been in the spotlight more than Yosemite. Its cast of characters is especially rich, including James Mason Hutchings, Galen Clark, Frederick Law Olmsted, John Muir, David Brower, Joseph Grinnell, George M. Wright, and Ansel Adams. Not only was Yosemite the centerpiece of their careers, it was also the wellspring of their passion for nature. Now fully revised and updated, Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness continues their story, from Yosemite's path-breaking establishment in 1864 as a grant to California, 1890 expansion into a national park, boundary reductions and loss of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, evolution of wildlife protections and science, management practices threatening Yosemite Valley, and the fight for wilderness to the present day.

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword by Jarrell C. Jackman
  2. Preface
  3. 1 The Incomparable Valley
  4. 2 First Park
  5. 3 The Olmsted Plan
  6. 4 National Park
  7. 5 The Commission and the Cavalry
  8. 6 Losing Ground
  9. 7 Changing of the Guard
  10. 8 University of the Wilderness
  11. 9 The Science of Sanctuary
  12. 10 Sanctuary on Trial
  13. 11 The Science of Sanctuary Redefined
  14. 12 Self-Interest and the Environment
  15. 13 Management Adrift
  16. 14 Wilderness Postponed
  17. Epilogue: Into the Future—Again
  18. A Note on the Sources
  19. Notes
  20. About the Author