Binding: Hardcover
Description: The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks. When twenty - three - year - old George Mel ndez Wright arrived in Yosemite National Park in 1927 to work as a ranger naturalist the first Hispanic person to occupy any professional position in the National Park Service (NPS) he had already visited every national park in the western United States including Mc Kinley (now Denali) in Alaska. Two years later he would organize the first science - based wildlife survey of the western parks forever changing how the NPS would manage wildlife and natural resources. At a time when national parks routinely fed bears garbage as part of shows and killed bad predators like wolves mountain lions and coyotes Wright's new ideas for conservation set the stage for the modern scientific management of parks and other public lands. Tragically Wright died in a 1936 car accident while working to establish parks and wildlife refuges on the US - Mexico border. To this day he remains a celebrated figure among conservationists wildlife experts and park managers. In this book Jerry Emory a conservationist and writer connected to Wright's family draws on hundreds of letters field notes archival research interviews and more to offer both a biography of Wright and a historical account of a crucial period in the evolution of US parks and the wilderness movement. With a foreword by former NPS director Jonathan B. Jarvis George Mel ndez Wright is a celebration of Wright's unique upbringing dynamism and enduring vision that places him at last in the pantheon of the great American conservationists.
Title: George Melendez Wright The Fight For Wildlife And Wilderness In The National Parks
Author(s): Emory Jerry
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226824949
Pages: 248 Pages, 26 Halftones
Publication Date: 4/26/2023
Category: Conservation Of The Environment