Reese%27s 1984 book brought a national centrifugal focus on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as the cradle of modern landscape conservation in the Lower 48. Just a few years after its publication%2C the Congressional Research Service launched an investigation into how federal land management activities occurring on adjacent national parks%2C forests%2C and BLM lands were often in contradiction with each other in terms of stated goals. And often%2C wildlife and the habitat it needs to survive was being sacrificed to industrial activities such as logging%2C mining and fossil fuel development.
Reese%27s 1984 book brought a national centrifugal focus on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as the cradle of modern landscape conservation in the Lower 48. Just a few years after its publication%2C the Congressional Research Service launched an investigation into how federal land management activities occurring on adjacent national parks%2C forests%2C and BLM lands were often in contradiction with each other in terms of stated goals. And often%2C wildlife and the habitat it needs to survive was being sacrificed to industrial activities such as logging%2C mining and fossil fuel development.