Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness
- ISBN-10
- 1493053655
- ISBN-13
- 9781493053650
- Series
- Yosemite
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-08-01
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- Alfred Runte
Description
This history of Yosemite follows it as the seat of controversy affecting the evolution of national parks, from its path-breaking establishment in 1864 as a grant to California, 1890 expansion into a national park, boundary reductions and loss of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, evolution of wildlife science, management practices threatening Yosemite Valley, and erosion of wilderness to the present day.
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- 2009-04-28
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