Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park (with an Epilogue by the Author)

Chase, Alston

ISBN 10: 0156720361 / ISBN 13: 9780156720366

Published by Harper Paperbacks, 1987

About this Item

Binding tight.Cover clean.Minor wear to page edges and corners. Paperback.Minor marking or underlining to text.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park (with an Epilogue by the Author)
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156720361
• ISBN 13: 9780156720366
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 22 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • NScience::Nature

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Synopsis

Chase asserts that Yellowstone is being destroyed by the very people assigned to protect it: the National Park Service. Named as one of “ten books that mattered” in the 1980s by Outside magazine and a book of continuing crucial relevance. Index; map.

Reviews

The head of an education program at Yellowstone, Chase charges that the overriding priority of the national park's staff is the safety of the visitors and that current wildlife management stresses an "intact ecosystem," meaning that diseased animals are allowed to roam, among other problems. PW called this "explosive."
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