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Zitt, Thomas J. "Reinventing Nature in America's First National Parks: Struggles over Management Policies in Yellowstone," American Culture Studies Program, Bowling Green State University, December 1992. Advisor: Philip G. Terrie (2, Environmental Studies, 3)
This interdisciplinary study focusing on Yellowstone National Park examines American pastoral and wilderness traditions as revealed in literature, landscape painting and photography, and conservation policy. It then explores the influence of those traditions on the establishment of the park in 1872; on the current interagency effort to create the 18 million acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; and on management policies regarding bears, wolves, elk, and fire. The dissertation concludes that reinscribing Yellowstone National Park as the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is a compelling model of how nature/culture dichotomies can be deconstructed without compromising the integrity of natural systems and processes.
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