Engineering Eden
The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
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The National Park Service is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. And while a century may seem like a long time, it's safe to say, after reading Engineering Eden, that we're only just beginning to understand how to best manage our lands.
Fundamental to management is the question of how “wild” do we want our parks to be? Author Jordan Fisher Smith writes:
There are two ways in which most people don't wish to die: by being torn apart by a wild animal and by being roasted in flames. These two abject fears from deep in the ape-psyche, became, in the American West, bloated government programs, the two-headed dragon that Starker Leopold fought all his life.
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Engineering Eden
