Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone

""While Yellowstone National Park is the core of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), the GYE is actually much bigger than the park, encompassing Grand Teton National Park and a variety of other public lands, for a total of 23 million acres. Keiter, a public land law and policy expert, explores the GYE in this book, which comes out in July. He looks at how the Yellowstone ecosystem came to be tied to conservation, and the controversies, challenges, and changes the region has dealt with in the past, as well as what it’s currently facing. But it’s not just a book about Yellowstone; Keiter examines the lessons in nature conservation learned from Yellowstone and how they can be applied elsewhere, helping to pave the way for the future."" -- Jaime Herndon * American Scientist * “The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem was once an interwoven fabric of biodiversity, migrating wildlife, and the livelihood of Indigenous people. But in our insatiable appetite for economic growth, we sliced it up into pieces for states, timber harvest, mining, energy development, ranches, homesteads, and fortunately, two big parks in the middle. Keiter artfully explains this history and how, with science, law, litigation, policy, and politics, we are trying to stitch it back together into a quilt that may, we hope, resemble its former function and beauty.” -- Jonathan B. Jarvis, eighteenth director of the National Park Service “Keiter did it again!—an insightful, well written, accessible book on Yellowstone’s seminal contribution to America’s and the world’s human-nature interrelations. He captures Yellowstone’s evolving environmental and policy dynamic over history, up to and including present challenges. The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of today needs farsighted leadership and enduring public support to sustain this global treasure. Keiter’s book will help all of us in this vital endeavor.” -- Susan G. Clark, author of ""Yellowstone’s Survival: A Call to Action for a New Conservation Story"" “No book on the subject comes close to this one in scope or readability, which means it is suitable for both specialists in environmental and natural resource management and casual readers interested in knowing more about this celebrated landscape.” -- John D. Leshy, author of ""Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands""