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"As America's first national park--established thirty years before the creation of the National Park Service--Yellowstone lacked any sort of systems or procedures to shape and direct its early wildlife conservation practices. The soldiers who manned the park thus spent a considerable amoun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Diane, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2017.
Temas:
Smithsonian Institution > History.
National Zoological Park (U.S.) > History.
National Zoological Park (U.S.)
Smithsonian Institution
Wildlife conservation > Yellowstone National Park > History.
Wildlife management > Yellowstone National Park > History.
Natural history museums > United States > History.
Biological specimens > United States > History.
Faune > Protection > Yellowstone National Park > Histoire.
Sciences naturelles > Musées > États-Unis > Histoire.
Biologie > Spécimens > États-Unis > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > 19th century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
Biological specimens
Ecology
Natural history museums
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management
Yellowstone National Park > History.
Yellowstone National Park > Environmental conditions.
Yellowstone National Park > Histoire.
Yellowstone National Park > Conditions environnementales.
United States
United States > Yellowstone National Park
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Center of New Knowledge
  • The Smithsonian Institution : Type Specimens and the Origins of Specimen Exchange
  • Yellowstone National Park : The Survival of the Specimens
  • Centennial Exhibition : Object Maps of US Commercial Resources
  • Part II. Centers of Conservation
  • In the Beginning Were the Bison : Habitat Groups and the Vital Spark
  • A National and Zoological Park : "A Home and City of Refuge for the Vanishing Races of the Continent"
  • Part III. Animals and Artifacts
  • An Almost Certain Fate : Animal Displays and the Contest for Yellowstone Resources
  • The Greatest Game Preserve in the Country : City of Refuge or a National Zoo
  • Yellowstone and Wild Animal Displays : "The Most Wonderful and Best Known of the Great Government Reservations."

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