| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

James A. Prichard. Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions: Science and the Perception of Nature. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1999. Pp. xix, 370. $45.00.

For many people, Yellowstone National Park represents a vestige of primordial North America where nature is free of human disturbance and wild animals still act out the ancient struggles of life and death. James A. Pritchard reminds us that this American Eden is hardly free of human values and actions. Rather, it is the product of intensive management schemes that have alternately killed and cultivated various segments of the park landscape to make them fit changing conceptions of nature, science, and preservation. As Pritchard writes: "The park border remains not an ecological border but a cultural boundary delimiting particular ways of understanding and using the landscape" (p. xvii). Because Yellowstone is one of the most symbolically charged landscapes in the United States, and because the park has long served as an important center of ecological study both within and outside the National Park Service (NPS), the history of scientific study in Yellowstone has relevance far beyond the park itself. . . .

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