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Author(s):	Jerry Emory

Date:	2024	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0226824942
Pages:	248	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks.
 
When twenty-three-year-old George Melndez Wright arrived in Yosemite National Park in 1927 to work as a ranger naturalistthe 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 McKinley (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, Wrights 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 Wrights 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,
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