Reese's 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, the Congressional Research Service launched an investigation into how federal land management activities occurring on adjacent national parks, forests, and BLM lands were often in contradiction with each other in terms of stated goals. And often, wildlife and the habitat it needs to survive was being sacrificed to industrial activities such as logging, mining and fossil fuel development.
Reese's 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, the Congressional Research Service launched an investigation into how federal land management activities occurring on adjacent national parks, forests, and BLM lands were often in contradiction with each other in terms of stated goals. And often, wildlife and the habitat it needs to survive was being sacrificed to industrial activities such as logging, mining and fossil fuel development.