People and Place: The Human Experience in Greater Yellowstone - Fourth Biennial Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Abstracts and Agenda
Schullery P and Stevenson S (ed). 1997. People and Place: The Human Experience in Greater Yellowstone - Fourth Biennial Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Abstracts and Agenda. Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone National Park. October 12-15, 1997. Yellowstone Center for Resources. Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. 4th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
- In 1991, when we initiated our biennial conference series in Yellowstone, we fully intended that each meeting attract as many academic disciplines as possible. In fact, the compliment we may have heard most often over the years has been an expression of appreciation for just how widely our agendas range across the scholarly spectrum. A glance at the agendas and proceedings for the first three conferences - which focused on vegetation, fire, and predators - reveal the breadth of information, and the corresponding breadth of audience appeal these gatherings generated. - The year of the fourth conference, 1997, was also the 125th anniversary year of Yellowstone National Park. It was the perfect occasion to celebrate and showcase the wealth of humanities-related research chat was underway in greater Yellowstone. As you will see from this generous and representative selection of papers from that conference, it was even more successful than its predecessors in attracting a full, multidisciplinary crowd. - Besides the many outstanding papers presented, the conference featured a series of keynotes by some of the nation's leading figures in environmental history and park- related humanities research. We are fortunate to include several of those presentations here. Conservationist and historian T. H. Watkins, from Montana State University, delivered a stirring Leopold Lecture on the fate of the modern environmental movement. Donald Worster, University of Kansas, considered the parallels and distinctions between Canadian and United Sates conservation movements. Patricia Limerick, University of Colorado, explored the quirky and revealing nature of the idea of progress in the history of Yellowstone management. And Gordon Brittan, Montana State University, met the daunting challenge of summarizing the vast array of ideas, opinions, information, and dreams that were expressed through the three very busy days of sessions.
- Type
- Conference Proceeding
- Authors
- Schullery, Paul; Stevenson, Sarah
- Date of Issue
- 1997
- Units
- GRTE , HIST , JODR , YELL
- Keywords
- ehistory, History, Management, National Park Ideas, Natives and Locals, Natural Resource, Recreation, Researchers and Resource Managers, Yellowstone Visitors