Book Spotlight: Books by GWS Members
The Book Spotlight features recent books, or chapters contributed to edited volumes, that have been published by current GWS members. It's a free benefit to GWS members, and a great way to get the word out about your book. Find out how
Here are the books and chapters currently in the spotlight:
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Wildlife Watching in America's National Parks: A Seasonal Guide
Gary W. Vequist and Daniel S. Licht
Texas A&M University Press, 2012 244 pp. — $25.00 flexcover Showcasing one species for each month of the year, including gray wolf, black bear, prairie dog, sea turtle, bison, bats, salmon, elk, beaver, American alligator, gray whale, and bald eagle, Vequist and Licht pair each premier species with a featured park, adding information about other parks where the species may also be readily seen and identifying other animals to look for in the same habitat—animals that prey, are preyed upon, or exist side by side with the focal species. |
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To Conserve Unimpaired: The Evolution of the National Park Idea
Robert B. Keiter
Island Press, 2013 368 pp. — $35.00 softcover Keiter explains how parks are changing to adapt to the environmental, economic, and demographic changes they face today. While national parks may be “the best idea America ever had,” Keiter argues that the national parks are not just one idea, but a blend of many ideas that have evolved, and are continuing to evolve, over the system’s hundred-year history. National parks can be wilderness areas, recreational playgrounds, tourist destinations, classrooms, native or tribal homelands, and more. By tracing the development of each of these goals over time, examining the controversies connected to them, and exploring what each goal means for parks in the future, To Conserve Unimpaired argues that a more complete understanding of the system and its history is paramount to thinking about what it means to conserve these places. |
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Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management (2nd ed.)
Daniel J. Decker, Shawn J. Riley, and William F. Siemer
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012 304 pp. — $85.00 hardcover Wildlife professionals can more effectively manage species and social-ecological systems by fully considering the role that humans play in every stage of the process. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management provides the essential information that students and practitioners need to be effective problem sovlers. Edited by three leading experts in wildlife management, this textbook explores the interface of humans with wildlife and their sometimes complementary, often conflicting,interests. The book's well-researched chapters address conservation,wildlife use (hunting and fishing), and the psychological and philosophical underpinnings of wildlife management. |
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Managing Outdoor Recreation: Case Studies in the National Park
Robert E. Manning and Laura E. Anderson
CABI, 2012 256 pp. — $145.00 hardcover, $70.00 softcover The book is designed to help guide systematic and creative thinking about managing outdoor recreation. It begins by examining 1) the potential impacts of outdoor recreation on park resources and the quality of the visitor experience, and 2) management actions that might be applied to minimizing these impacts.It then builds a series of matrixes to help guide identification and application of management actions.The matrices are illustrated with a series of twenty case studies in diverse units of the national park system.The final chapter extracts a series of principles or best practices to guide outdoor recreation management in parks and related areas. The book is designed for both students and practitioners. |
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One Person Can Make a Difference: Inspired Environmental Leaders
Frank J. Priznar & Michaela Doyle
PRIZIM, 2012 46 pp. — $48.00 hardcover, $36.00 softcover Priznar and Doyle offer fresh sketches of the lives and accomplishments of 11 important American environmental leaders. George Melendez Wright is here, and the authors provide some new insights into the forces that shaped his short but influential life. So is Wright's ally, Ding Darling of the national wildlife refuges, and one of his heirs in activism, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, defender of the Everglades. Audubon, Marsh, Burroughs, Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Pinchot, Leopold, and Carson round out the portraits. |
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The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
Mark Fiege
University of Washington Press, 2012 600 pp. — $34.95 hardcover In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light. "For readers swayed by Fiege's persuasive pages, American history will never look quite the same again." — Science, May 2012 |
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Working Together: Our Stories
Parks Canada Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat; Nathalie Gagnon, ed.
Parks Canada, 2011 53 pp. — PDF downloadable no charge This collection of stories reflects Parks Canada’s vision of working together with Aboriginal peoples to ensure a more holistic stewardship of our natural and historical heritage that includes the cultural values and the knowledge of Canada’s First Nation, Métis and Inuit peoples. Canada is recognized as an international leader in working with Aboriginal peoples. Working Together: Our Stories showcases examples of successful projects where Parks Canada and Aboriginal partners have worked together to protect Canadian heritage. PDF copy downloadable in English or French at no charge (filesize = 2.6Mb) |
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Vital Signs Monitoring: Overviews
Jerry Freilich, Mark Huff, and Michael Liang, eds.
National Park Service, 2011 90 pp. — Copies available at no charge Vital Signs Monitoring: Overviews" explains the “Inventory and Monitoring” program in the eight national parks comprising the North Coast & Cascades Network. Each chapter follows the NPS scientists who monitor the suite of "vital signs" that were selected as indicators of ecosystem health. The program will monitor glaciers, elk, fish, forests, birds and four other indicators far into the future so that parks can track their ecosystems and give timely warnings to managers. These lively articles, written by Emily Linroth and James Andrews, of the Western Washington University environmental journalism program, explain the work and the motivations of the scientists and technicians who brave the elements to do it. Free copies available from the Learning Network Coordinator: |
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Warfare Ecology: A New Synthesis for Peace and Security
Gary E. Machlis, Thor Hanson, Zdravko Spiric, and Jean E. McKendry, eds.
Springer, 2011 300 pp. — Hardcover $189.00; Softcover $89.00 The purpose of this book is both specific and ambitious: to outline the |
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Uncertain Path: A Search for the Future of National Parks
William C. Tweed
University of California Press, 2011 248 pp. — Hardcover $24.95 In this walking meditation, William Tweed, who worked among the Sierra Nevada’s big peaks and big trees for more than thirty years, hikes more than 200 miles along California’s John Muir Trail in a personal search for answers: How do we address the climate change we are seeing even now—in melting glaciers in Glacier National Park, changing rainy seasons on Mt Rainer, and more fire in the West’s iconic parks. Should we intervene where we can to preserve biodiversity? Should the parks merely become ecosystem museums that exhibit famous landscapes and species? Tweed weaves his experiences along this high-altitude trail together with reflections on the people and ideas that created the parks and on their status and meaning today. |
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Studies in Outdoor Recreation: Search and Research for Satisfaction, 3rd ed.
Robert E. Manning
Oregon State University Press, 2010 468 pp. — Hardcover $70; Paperback $35 For twenty-five years, Studies in Outdoor Recreation has served as a standard text in college courses. It integrates social science literature on outdoor recreation by reviewing studies from this broad, interdisciplinary field and synthesizing them into a body of knowledge, providing an historical perspective on outdoor recreation research and developing its practical management implications. The third edition is revised to reflect current research and new concerns in the field. A new chapter examines the emerging issue of sense of place and its relationship to outdoor recreation. The book concludes with twenty principles to guide outdoor recreation management and research. An extensive bibliography and section entitled “Notes on Sources: A Guide to the Social Science Literature in Outdoor Recreation” lead readers to valuable primary source material. |
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Beyond Naturalness. Rethinking Park and Wilderness Stewardship in an Era of Rapid Change
Editors: David N. Cole and Laurie Yung
Island Press, 2010 287 pp. — Hardcover $70; Paperback $35 The central concept guiding the management of parks and wilderness over the past century has been “naturalness”—to a large extent the explicit purpose in establishing these special areas was to keep them in their “natural” state. But what does that mean, particularly as the effects of stressors such as habitat fragmentation, altered disturbance regimes, pollution, invasive species, and climate change become both more pronounced and more pervasive? Beyond Naturalness brings together leading scientists and policymakers to explore the concept of naturalness. It concludes that while naturalness will continue to provide an important touchstone for protected area conservation, more specific goals and objectives are needed to guide practical stewardship. Policy options and institutional implications are explored. |
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Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History (revised ed.)
Richard West Sellars Yale University Press, 2009
440 pp. — $27.50 paper
This groundbreaking book—now reissued with a new preface and epilogue that bring the book up to the 2009 change in presidential administrations—traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and emerging ecological concepts in America’s national parks. “One of the most important books ever written on the realities of biological conservation. It should be required reading for anyone interested in national parks.” — DAVID J. PARSONS, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, U. S. Forest Service. “An indispensable book on the history of biological conservation in the national parks.” — WILLIAM CRONON, author of Changes in the Land. |
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Wildlife and Society: The Science of Human Dimensions
Michael Manfredo, Jerry Vaske, Perry Brown, Daniel Decker, Esther Duke, eds. Island Press, 2008
368 pp. — $49.50 paper, $95.00 hardcover Wildlife and Society is uniquely comprehensive in its approach to presenting the past, present, and future of human dimensions of fish and wildlife research and application. It offers perspectives from a wide variety of academic disciplines as well as presenting the views of practitioners from the United States, Europe, Africa, and Latin America. It is an important new reference for anyone concerned with fish and wildlife management or environmental conservation and protection. |
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Parks and People: Managing Outdoor Recreation at Acadia National Park
Edited by Robert Manning University Press of New England, 2009
344 pp. — $49.95 paper
This book presents a science-based approach to outdoor recreation management at Acadia National Park, applicable to parks and conservation areas nationwide. The book describes fifteen years of research at Acadia, conducted by Robert E. Manning, his colleagues, and students. The book is organized into three parts. Part I addresses indicators and standards of quality for park resources and the visitor experience. Part II describes efforts to monitor indicator variables. Part III outlines and assesses management actions designed to maintain standards of quality. The book concludes with a discussion of the implications of this program of natural and social science research, including a series of principles for outdoor recreation management at Acadia and other parks and conservation areas. |
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Wilderness in National Parks: Playground or Preserve
John C. Miles
University of Washington Press, 2009
334 pp. — $35 paper; $75 cloth
Many Americans think of national parks and wilderness as synonymous, yet they are not. This word has taken various meanings and influenced policy in various ways throughout the history of the national park system. The book traces that history examining how and why the National Park Service has had such a struggle addressing formal wilderness in its policy and management. Despite its reluctance to embrace “zoning” parks for wilderness, its opposition to the Wilderness Act, and its difficulties recommending wilderness as mandated by the Act, it is today the world’s preeminent wilderness steward. The author attempts to explain how the NPS has protected wilderness in spite of itself. |
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Island Life: An Isle Royale Nature Guide
Ted Gostomski & Janet Marr
Isle Royale Natural History Association, 2007
168 pp. — $19.95 paper
A complete Isle Royale nature guide that describes all the common flora and fauna of the island in a full color, compact book. “At last the common flora and fauna of Isle Royale are collected in this one easy-to-use and easy-to-carry volume! Island Life provides park visitors with answers to many of their ‘what was that?’ questions and handy ways to identify and appreciate the mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, trees and flowers of this unique island community." --Liz Valencia, Chief of Interpretation, Isle Royale National Park. |
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An American Family in World War II
Edited by Ralph L. Minker, Sandra O'Connell, and Harry Butowsky Word Association Publishers, 2005 $24.95 paper On the morning of December 7, 1941, life for families across America was forever changed by events over which they had no control, but were to witness and play a part. An American Family in World War II is the story of one of those families — told largely in their own words. When Ralph "Lee" Minker Jr. entered U.S. Army Air Cadet training in 1943, he began a correspondence with his parents and two teenage sisters; letters that describe the rigors of pilot training and ultimately his life at "this air base I call home," as he flew 37 combat missions over Nazi Germany. The letters from the family members to Minker bring a vibrant reality to the home front — "rationing, bond drives, and the daily tension of war" — through the people who lived it. |
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The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation
Edited by David Harmon, Francis P. McManamon, and Dwight T. Pitcaithley University of Arizona, 2006 326 pages -- $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper A comprehensive review of one of the most important US conservation laws. As the title suggests, the Antiquities Act is remarkable for cutting across cultural and natural resource concerns. This collection covers the historical development of the Act, its implications for various disciplines, and future horizons. A complete list of all national monuments created under the Act is included as an appendix. Winner of State of New Mexico's 2006 Heritage Preservation Award in the category of Heritage Publication. |
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Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930
Terence Young Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 280 pages -- $45.00 cloth only This book traces the history of San Francisco's park system, from the earliest city plans, which made no provision for a public park, through the private garden movement of the 1850s and 1860, Frederick Law Olmsted's early involvement in developing a comprehensive parks plan, the design and construction of Golden Gate Park, and finally to the expansion of green space in the first third of the twentieth century. Young documents this history in terms of the four social ideals that guided America's urban park advocates and planners in this period: public health, prosperity, social coherence, and democratic equality. |
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Communities and Forests: Where People Meet the Land
Edited by Robert G. Lee and Donald R. Field Oregon State University Press, 2005 310 pp. -- $29.95 paper This volume focuses on the integration of communities into decision-making about forests. It considers the connection between forests and communities from a variety of perspectives, including environmental history, natural resource sociology, and forest policy, to show that forests are as much a social institution as they are a biological resource. |
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Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World
Charles C. Chester Island Press, 2006 262 pp. -- $29.95 paper; $60 cloth Conservation Across Borders presents a broad overview of the history of transboundary conservation efforts. Through detailed examinations of two initiatives, the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA) and the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative (Y2Y), the book helps readers understand the benefits and challenges of landscape-scale protection. In addition to discussing general concepts and the specific experience of ISDA and Y2Y, the author considers the emerging concept of "conservation effectiveness" and offers a comparative analysis of the two projects. The book ends with a discussion of the complex relationships among civil society, governments, and international borders. |
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Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict
Lary M. Dilsaver University of Virginia Press, 2004 323 pp. -- $35.00 cloth First a history of the establishment, management, and conservation issues of the site, Cumberland Island National Seashore also serves as a revealing look at the ongoing national battle between ecosystem preservation, historic conservation, and lingering private use in the park system. Dilsaver uses the island as an example of the difficulty of converting privately owned lands into public space. The fate of the island has galvanized national environmental groups, the descendants of powerful families, historic preservation organizations, and African American heritage societies. |
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Earth Repair: A Transatlantic History of Environmental Restoration
Marcus Hall University of Virginia Press, 2005 310 pp. -- $35.00 cloth Just as the restoration of Michelangelo's Last Judgment sparked enormous controversy in the art world, so are environmental restorationists intensely divided when it comes to finding ways to rehabilitate damaged ecosystems. The same question confronts artistic and environmental restorationists: Which systems need restoring, and to what states should they be restored? Earth Repair explores the answer to this question while offering an alternative to the usual narrative of humans disrupting and spoiling the earth. |
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David E. Newsome, David N. Cole and Jeffrey L. Marion, Environmental impacts associated with recreational horse riding.
Jeffrey L. Marion and Yu-Fai Leung, Environmentally sustainable trail management. Yu-Fai Leung and Jeffrey L. Marion, Managing impacts of campsites. David N. Cole, Impacts of hiking and camping on soils and vegetation: a review. Chapters in Environmental Impacts of Tourism All forms of tourism have impacts on the natural environment. The impacts of ecotourism tend to be concentrated in areas of highest conservation value, hence the need to manage and minimize these. The book considers impacts of particular activities, such as hiking and camping, off-road vehicles, and recreational boats, and impacts specific to certain ecosystems (e.g. marine environments, polar coasts, mountain environments). It incorporates reviews of better-studied impacts by well-known experts; and case studies of recent research and less well-known issues. |
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Fire in California's Ecosystems
Edited by Neil G. Sugihara, Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, Kevin E. Shaffer, Andrea E. Thode University of California Press, 2006 596 pp. -- $75 cloth Written by many of the foremost authorities on the subject, this comprehensive volume is the first to synthesize our knowledge of the science, ecology, and management of fire in California. Part I includes an historical overview of fire, vegetation, and climate in California; overviews of fire as a physical and ecological process; and reviews the interactions between fire and the physical, plant, and animal components of the environment. Part II explores the history and ecology of fire in each of California's nine bioregions. Part III examines fire management in California, including both Native American and post-European settlement; discusses current issues related to fire policy and management, including air quality, watershed management, invasive plant species, native species, and fuel management; and considers the future of fire management. |
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The Full Value of Parks: From Economics to the Intangible
Edited by David Harmon and Allen D. Putney Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 347 pp. -- $34.95 paper, $75.00 cloth This book, prepared as a contribution to the 2003 World Parks Congress, is the first comprehensive review of the intangible (non-material) values associated with parks and protected areas: cultural, spiritual, scientific, recreational, aesthetic values, among others. A global cast of authors contributed. "[A] valuable addition to any library supporting ecology programs and a good resource for ecologists, economists, geographers, and others studying parks and protected lands ... an anchor point for discussions in economics, religion, geography, ecology, and public policy.... Highly recommended." (Choice, April 2004) |
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Gem of the Adirondacks: Star Lake, Benson Mines, and the Global Economy
Russell J Hall Lighthall Books, 2005 194 pp. -- $15.95 paperback Gem of the Adirondacks tells the story of the Benson Mines and the effects of the growth of iron mining and its ultimate abandonment on Star Lake and surrounding communities. The author worked in the Benson Mines plant for several intervals between 1961 and 1966. His extensive research has been supplemented by access to some unique photographs and documentary material. |
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History of the Central Brooks Range: Gaunt Beauty, Tenuous Life William E. Brown University of Alaska Press , 2008 230 pp. -- $45 cloth, $24.95 paperback
The History of the Central Brooks Range uses rare primary sources in order to provide a chronological examination and history of the Koyukuk region -- including anthropological descriptions of the Native groups that make the Central Brooks Range and its surroundings their home. The history of early exploration, mining, and the Klondike all overflow into the story of the Koyukuk region and its rich cultural heritage, and Brown provides a fascinating history of the extraordinary ways of survival employed by pioneers in this rugged northern land. |
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Keeping Faith with Nature: Ecosystems, Democracy, and America's Public Lands
Robert B. Keiter Yale University Press, 2003 434 pp. -- $28 cloth The book examines the historical, scientific, political, legal, and institutional developments that are changing management priorities and policies on the public lands — developments that compel us to view these lands as an integrated ecological entity and a key biodiversity stronghold. It includes chapters on the emergence of ecosystem management principles, new preservation challenges, and collaborative conservation initiatives. Arguing that we must integrate the new imperatives of ecosystem science with our devolutionary political tendencies, the book outlines a coherent new approach to natural resource policy for the 21st century. |
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Last Great Wilderness: The Campaign to Establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge In the early 1950s, three decades before the battle over oil development in the Arctic Refuge began, a group of visionary conservationists launched a campaign to protect northeast Alaska as an archetypal wilderness. Last Great Wilderness examines the interwoven set of tangible and intangible values — cultural, spiritual, and symbolic as well as wildlife, ecological, and recreational values that underpinned the campaign. As it traces the beginnings of a landmark conservation unit of unprecedented size and purpose, the story that unfolds chronicles the evolution of the wilderness concept during a pivotal period of American environmental history. |
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Managing Mountain Protected Areas: Challenges and Responses for the 21st Century
Edited by David Harmon and Graeme L. Worboys
Andromeda Editrice, 2004 Managing Mountain Protected Areas presents experience from around the world on a diverse set of issues related to the special circumstances of managing PAs in mountainous areas. Among the subjects are landscape-level inititatives, corridors, transboundary PAs, biodiversity, partnerships, wilderness, recreation, visitor impacts, and financing, among others. The book originated in a workshop held in South Africa's Drakensberg mountains in conjunction the 2003 World Parks Congress. |
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Managing Protected Areas: A Global Guide
Edited by Michael Lockwood, Graeme L. Worboys, and Ashish Kothari Earthscan, 2007 802 pages -- GBP 44.96 (about $91), paper The most comprehensive park management book ever written, Managing Protected Areas is a massive compilation of best practices from around the world. It is the work of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas, a worldwide voluntary network of park professionals. Dozens of figures, tables, and text boxes augment chapters that range from biodiversity protection to the intangible values and benefits of parks. |
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The Maya Tropical Forest: People, Parks, and Ancient Cities
James D. Nations University of Texas Press, 2006 352 pp. -- $60 cloth, $22.95 paper The Maya Tropical Forest, which occupies the lowlands of southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, is the closest tropical rainforest to the United States. Writing for both park visitors and conservationists, James Nations presents a natural history that profiles the forest's significant animals and plants, then describes the Maya peoples, national parks, and major archaeological sites in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of conservation work in the Maya Tropical Forest, Nations tells first-hand stories of the creation of national parks and other protected areas to safeguard the region's natural resources and archaeological heritage. |
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Mission 66: Modernism and the National Park Dilemma
Ethan Carr University of Massachusetts Press, 2007 424 pp. -- $38.95 cloth In the years following World War II, Americans visited the national parks in unprecedented numbers, yet Congress held funding at prewar levels and park conditions steadily declined. To address the problem, in 1956 a ten-year, billion-dollar initiative titled "Mission 66" was launched, timed to be completed in 1966, the fiftieth anniversary of the National Park Service. Mission 66 was controversial at the time, and it continues to incite debate over the policies it represented. Carr's book examines the significance of the Mission 66 program and explores the influence of midcentury modernism on landscape design and park planning. |
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Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park
Paul Schullery and Lee Whittlesey University of Nebraska Press, 2003 125 pp. -- $22.00 cloth Yellowstone National Park, a global icon of conservation and natural beauty, was born at the most improbable of times: the American Gilded Age, when altruism seemed extinct and society's vision seemed focused on only greed and growth. Perhaps that is why the park's "creation myth" portrayed a few saintlike pioneer conservationists laboring to set aside this unique wilderness against all odds. In fact, the establishment of Yellowstone was the result of complex social, scientific, economic, and aesthetic forces. "This trim little book dissects the creation myth of America's premier National Park and in doing so raises important questions about the relationship between history and public memory." (New Mexico Historical Review) |
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National Parks and Protected Areas: Approaches for Balancing Social, Economic and Ecological Values
Tony Prato and Dan Fagre Blackwell, 2005 446 pp. -- $130.99 (hardback) National Parks and Protected Areas: Approaches for Balancing Social, Economic and Ecological Values is peerless in its unified treatment of the issues surrounding the "new direction" being taken to cope with the internal and external forces impinging on protected areas. From decision-making for planning and management to the principles of ecology and economics, this text examines the analytical methods, information technologies, and planning and management problems associated with protected areas. Protected area managers, as well as students in undergraduate and graduate courses in natural resource management, will appreciate this highly readable book. |
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Parks and Carrying Capacity: Commons Without Tragedy
Robert E. Manning Island Press, 2007 313 pp. -- $70 cloth, $35 paper "This book is a valuable contribution to a literature calling for increased science-based knowledge about the long-term management and sustainability of critical biophysical and social values for parks and other protected areas. Manning offers a range of practical, easy-to-understand case studies from applied research and resource management that addresses the question, At what point must managers intervene to prevent unacceptable environmental and social impacts by visitors? Policy makers, managers, planners, researchers, teachers, and students interested in the controversy over park protection and preservation versus use will benefit greatly from this provocative volume.” David W. Lime |
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Protected Area Management: Principles and Practice
(2nd ed.) Edited by Graeme L. Worboys, Michael Lockwood, and Terry De Lacy Oxford University Press (Australia), 2005 641 pp. -- AUD$99.95 (US$72.95) paper Protected Area Management: Principles and Practice examines the multi-disciplinary task of managing protected areas. This second edition of this authoritative text has been updated, expanded, and includes new Australian and international case studies. Part A explains the environmental, social, political and historical context of management; Part B examines in depth the main principles and practices of management, including obtaining and managing information; planning; administration; economics; natural heritage; cultural heritage; incidents; tourism and visitor management, indigenous peoples and protected areas, and managing for the future; and, Part C is a state-by-state summary of protected areas. |
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The Protected Landscape Approach: Linking Nature, Culture, and Community
Edited by Jessica Brown, Nora Mitchell, and Michael Beresford IUCN, 2005 268 pp. -- $29.00 paper The traditional patterns of land use that have created many of the world's cultural landscapes contribute to biodiversity, support ecological processes, provide important environmental services, and have proven sustainable over the centuries. Protected landscapes can serve as living models of sustainable use of land and resources, and offer important lessons for sustainable development. This book presents examples of these landscapes and the diverse strategies needed to maintain this essential relationship between people and the land. |
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Reconstructing Conservation: Finding Common Ground
Edited by Ben A. Minteer and Robert E. Manning Island Press, 2003 334 pp. -- $27.50 paper, $55.00 cloth In the 1990s, influenced by the deconstructionist movement in literary theory and trends toward revisionist history, a cadre of academics and historians began raising provocative questions about ideas of wilderness and the commitments and strategies of the contemporary environmental movement. While these critiques challenged some cherished and widely held beliefs -- and raised the hackles of many in the environmental community -- they also stimulated an important and potentially transformative debate about the conceptual foundations of environmentalism. Reconstructing Conservation makes a vital contribution to that debate, bringing together 23 leading scholars and practitioners to examine the classical conservation tradition and its value to contemporary environmentalism. |
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Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes: Science, Policy, and Management for the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem
Edited by Tony Prato and Dan Fagre Resources for the Future, 2007 310 pp. -- $90 cloth, $42 paper The first systematic, multidisciplinary assessment of the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem," an area covering northwestern Montana, southwestern Alberta, and southeastern British Columbia, and whose centerpiece is a complex of wildlands that includes Waterton-Glacier. As the economic base shifts from resource extraction to tourism and residential growth, new policies for managing growth and economic transformation are required. Contributors to this book offer a variety of perspectives and proposed solutions. |
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This Last Treasure: Alaska National Parklands
William E. Brown Alaska Natural History Association, 2005 192 pp. -- $40.00 cloth, $24.95 paper Originally published in 1982 to celebrate the new and expanded national parks in Alaska, this re-release is in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). Each of Alaska's national parks is described and augmented through excerpts and quotes about the natural and cultural heritage of the park. President Jimmy Carter contributed a preface for the 2005 release in honor of the historic land conservation act that bears his signature. With fresh photographs and a new elegant design complimenting William Brown's lyrical writing, this book is a keepsake for anyone who loves Alaska's national parks. |
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Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Fire ecology of the Sierra Nevada: Forests born to burn
Chapter in Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy More than 25 leading thinkers in the field of fire ecology provide in-depth analyses, critiques, and compelling solutions for how we live with fire in our society. Using examples such as the epic Yellowstone fires of 1988, the ever-present southern California fires, and the Northwest's Biscuit Fire of 2002, the book examines the ecology of these landscapes and the policies and practices that affected them and continue to affect them, such as fire suppression, prescribed burns, salvage logging, and land-use planning. Overall, the book aims to promote the restoration of fire to the landscape and to encourage its natural behavior so it can resume its role as a major ecological process. |
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Wildland Recreation Policy: An Introduction (2nd ed.)
J. Douglas Wellman and Dennis B. Propst Krieger Publishing, 2004 374 pp. -- $58.50 cloth, $49.50 paper In terms of size and diversity, America's publicly-owned wildlands have few worldwide rivals. These places reflect the values of the people who create, use, manage and support them. As such, America's wildlands are dynamic socio-biological systems that evolve and change in response to human needs, societal values and political forces. Wildland Recreation Policy is not only about how our system of wildlands came to be, but also the political process by which we decide how these places should and should not be used. Our intent is to build a knowledge structure for creating responsive agencies and policies, the cornerstones of conflict resolution in wildland recreation. |
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The Yellowstone Wolf: A Guide and Sourcebook
Paul Schullery, ed. University of Oklahoma Press, 2003 376 pp. -- $12.95 paper Highly regarded but often misunderstood, the wolf has as many friends as enemies, and its reintroduction into Yellowstone National Park has sparked both fascination and controversy. This comprehensive reference documents the prehistory, management, and nature of the Yellowstone wolf. Historian-naturalist Paul Schullery has assembled the voices of explorers, naturalists, park officials, tourists, lawmakers, and modern researchers to tell the story of what may be the most famous wolf population in the world. All royalties from sales of this book go to Yellowstone's wolf recovery project. |