Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the Construction of Nature. By Mark Daniel Barringer. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. viii, 238. $29.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 276-277
Author(s):  
Robert K. Fleck
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Yellowstone National Park ◽  
National Park ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Detailed History ◽  
Private Provision ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
History Of

In this well written book, Mark Barringer provides an interesting and detailed history of commercial enterprises in Yellowstone National Park. The book has great value to scholars concerned with the management of public lands, the roles that interest groups (park employees, concessioners, tourists, and environmentalists) have played in the history of Yellowstone, and the difficulties in designing contracts for the private provision of goods and services on public lands.

scholarly journals Atlas of Yellowstone, 2nd Edition: Celebrating 150 Years of the World’s First National Park, 1872–2022

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
W. Andrew Marcus ◽  
James E. Meacham ◽  
Justin T. Menke ◽  
Aleathea Y. Steingisser ◽  
Ann E. Rodman
Keyword(s):  
Key Management ◽  
Yellowstone National Park ◽  
National Park ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Light Pollution ◽  
Natural Setting ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Management Issues

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The Second Edition of the Atlas of Yellowstone will celebrate the 150-year history of the world’s first national park – and reflect on the future of Yellowstone and its evolving place in the world. Like the first Atlas of Yellowstone published in 2012, the Second Edition will provide a comprehensive view of the human and natural setting of Yellowstone National Park. Also like the First Edition, the new edition will portray variations over space and time, explore human-nature interactions throughout the region, document connections of Yellowstone to the rest of the world, and &amp;ndash; ultimately &amp;ndash; guide the reader to a deeper appreciation of Yellowstone.</p><p>Beyond that, the new edition will provide much expanded coverage of the park’s history. Readers will better understand the many different ways in which the creation of Yellowstone National Park has preserved and altered the landscapes and ecology of Yellowstone and conservation thought and practice, both locally and around the world.</p><p>The new atlas will also reflect advances in scientific data collection, knowledge, and insight gained since publication of the first edition. New topic pages will address key management issues ranging from increased visitor impact to wildlife disease to light pollution. In addition, many of the 850 existing graphics will be updated, reimagined, or replaced by new graphics that capture the remarkable wealth of data that has become available since the First Edition. Whether it be tracking of individual wolves, ecosystem imagery from space, or detailed visitor surveys &amp;ndash; new data provide insights that could not be graphically displayed before.</p><p>The Second Edition celebrates 150 years of America’s best idea and what that has meant to the world. The significance of Yellowstone National Park to conservation, scholarship, and the human experience is enormous, and deserves a volume that captures that importance.</p>

scholarly journals Fire History of the Lamar River Drainage, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 169-173
Author(s):  
Stephen Barrett ◽  
Stephen Arno
Keyword(s):  
Yellowstone National Park ◽  
National Park ◽  
Fire History ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Lodgepole Pine ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Pine Forests ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
Tree Ring Data ◽  
History Of

This study's goal is to document the fire history of the Lamar River drainage, southeast of Soda Butte Creek in the Absaroka Mountains of northeastern Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Elsewhere in YNP investigators have documented very long-interval fire regimes for lodgepole pine forests occurring on rhyolitic derived soils (Romme 1982, Romme and Despain 1989) and short-interval fire regimes for the Douglas-fir/grassland types (Houston 1973). No fire regime information was available for lodgepole pine forests on andesitic derived soils, such as in the Lamar drainage. This study will provide managers with a more complete understanding of YNP natural fire history, and the data will supplement the park's Geographic Information System (GIS) data base. Moreover, most of the study area was severely burned in 1988 and historical tree ring data soon will be lost to attrition of potential sample trees.

scholarly journals Recent Debris-Flow and Flash-Flood History of Northeastern Yellowstone National Park

1996 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Joshua Landis ◽  
Grant Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Debris Flow ◽  
Yellowstone National Park ◽  
Little Ice Age ◽  
National Park ◽  
Flash Flood ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
Drought Severity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Flow Activity

An understanding of the ecological health of stream systems and riparian areas in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) requires knowledge of their response to climatic and hydrological influences; intrinsic factors such as relief and geological materials are important influences as well (e.g., O'Hara and Meyer 1995). Recent studies of southwestern (Ely et al. 1993) and midwestern U.S. rivers (Knox 1993) have shown that relatively minor climatic changes in the late Holocene are associated with large fluctuations in flood magnitude and frequency. In small, steep drainage basins of northeastern YNP (Figure 1), Meyer et al. (1992, 1995) associated increased fire-related debris-flow activity with decadal to millennial-scale cycles of drought over the Holocene. Observations of modern events indicate that debris-flow and flash floods are also produced in the absence of fire in this rugged mountainous region, primarily by intense summer thunderstorm precipitation. Although a correlation between drought severity and fire magnitude in Yellowstone is clear (Balling et al. 1992a, 1992b), the relationship hypothesized by Meyer et al. (1992,1995) between warm, drought-prone climatic episodes and debris-flow activity in this region requires further investigation. Therefore, we use relatively high-resolution lichenometric and tree­ring dating methods to construct a 250-year history of major hydrologic events in small, steep tributary basins of Soda Butte Creek in northeastern Yellowstone. This period spans the transition from the generally cooler global climate of the Little Ice Age to the present (e.g., Grove 1988). Although the Little Ice Age was not uniformly cold in either a spatial or temporal sense (Jones and Bradley 1995), and YNP climate is not well known in the earlier part of this interval, trends toward increasing summer temperatures and decreasing winter precipitation in YNP over the last ~100 yr are consistent with this transition (Balling et al. 1992a).

scholarly journals Holocene geo-ecological evolution of Lower Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park (USA)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Schiller ◽  
Cathy Whitlock ◽  
Sabrina R. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Yellowstone National Park ◽  
National Park ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Vegetation History ◽  
Fire Regime ◽  
Water Discharge ◽  
Hydrothermal Activity ◽  
Sediment Geochemistry ◽  
Thermal Waters ◽  
History Of

Abstract Changes in climate and fire regime have long been recognized as drivers of the postglacial vegetation history of Yellowstone National Park, but the effects of locally dramatic hydrothermal activity are poorly known. Multi-proxy records from Goose Lake have been used to describe the history of Lower Geyser Basin where modern hydrothermal activity is widespread. From 10,300 cal yr BP to 3800 cal yr BP, thermal waters discharged into the lake, as evidenced by the deposition of arsenic-rich sediment, fluorite mud, and relatively high δ13Csediment values. Partially thermal conditions affected the limnobiotic composition, but prevailing climate, fire regime, and rhyolitic substrate maintained Pinus contorta forest in the basin, as found throughout the region. At 3800 cal yr BP, thermal water discharge into Goose Lake ceased, as evidenced by a shift in sediment geochemistry and limnobiota. Pollen and charcoal data indicate concurrent grassland development with limited fuel biomass and less fire activity, despite late Holocene climate conditions that were conducive to expanded forest cover. The shift in hydrothermal activity at Goose Lake and establishment of the treeless geyser basin may have been the result of a tectonic event or change in hydroclimate. This record illustrates the complex interactions of geology and climate that govern the development of an active hydrothermal geo-ecosystem.

scholarly journals Distribution and functional potential of photoautotrophic bacteria in alkaline hot springs

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annastacia C. Bennett ◽  
Senthil K. Murugapiran ◽  
Eric D. Kees ◽  
Trinity L. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Fixation ◽  
Yellowstone National Park ◽  
National Park ◽  
Evolutionary History ◽  
Photosynthetic Bacteria ◽  
Hot Springs ◽  
The Body ◽  
Anoxygenic Phototrophs ◽  
Carbon And Nitrogen ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTAlkaline hot springs in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) provide a framework to study the relationship between photoautotrophs and temperature. Previous work has focused on cyanobacteria (oxygenic phototrophs), but anoxygenic phototrophs are critical parts of the evolutionary history of life on Earth and and are abundant across temperature gradients in alkaline hot springs. However, many questions remain regarding the ecophysiology of anoxygenic photosynthesis due to the taxonomic and metabolic diversity of these taxa. Here, we examined the distribution of genes involved in phototrophy and carbon and nitrogen fixation in eight alkaline (pH 7.3-9.4) hot spring sites approaching the upper temperature limit of photosynthesis (~72°C) in YNP using metagenome sequencing. Genes associated with cyanobacteria are abundant throughout our data and more diverse at temperatures > 63°C, genes for autotrophic Chloroflexi are more abundant in sites > 63°C and genes associated with phototrophic Chloroflexi are abundant throughout. Additionally, we recovered deep branching nitrogen fixation genes from our metagenomes, which could inform the evolutionary history of nitrogen fixation. Lastly, we recovered 25 metagenome assembled genomes of Chloroflexi. We found distinct differences in carbon fixation genes in Roseiflexus and Chloroflexus bins, in addition to several novel Chloroflexi bins. Our results highlight the physiological diversity and evolutionary history of the understudied, anoxygenic autotrophic Chloroflex. Furthermore, we provide evidence that genes involved in nitrogen fixation in Chloroflexi is more widespread than previously assumed.IMPORTANCEPhotosynthetic bacteria in hot springs are of great importance to both microbial evolution and ecology because they are responsible for the rise of oxygen and are critical to nutrient cycling. While a large body of work has focused on the oxygenic photosynthesis in cyanobacteria, many questions remain regarding the metabolic potential of anoxygenic phototrophs but are further compounded by their metabolic and taxonomic diversity. Here, we have recovered several novel metagenome bins and quantified the distribution of key genes involved in carbon and nitrogen metabolism in both oxygenic and anoxygenic phototrophs. Together, our results add to the body of work focusing on photosynthetic bacteria in hot springs in Yellowstone National Park.

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