Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to the ecosystem management debate / Robert B. Keiter
  • Defining the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem / Duncan T. Patten
  • Yellowstone in transition / John J. Craighead
  • Recreation fees and the Yellowstone forests / Randal O'Toole
  • "Faithful execution" of the laws governing Greater Yellowstone : whose law? whose priorities? / William J. Lockhart
  • Ecosystem management : will national forests be "managed" into national parks? / Karen J. Budd
  • Ecosystems and property rights in Greater Yellowstone : the legal system in transition / Joseph L. Sax
  • The Yellowstone fire controversy / Dennis H. Knight
  • Reality and opportunity in the Yellowstone fires of 1988 / John D. Varley and Paul Schullery
  • Observed and anticipated effects of forest fire on Yellowsstone stream ecosystems / G. Wayne Minshall and James T. Brock
  • Should management ignitions be used in Yellowstone National Park? / James K. Brown
  • A Canadian view of fire management in the Greater Yellowstone area / Nikita Lopoukhine
  • Vegetation and elk response to prescribed burning in south-central Montana / Fred G. Van Dyke, Jeffrey P. Dibenedetto, and Steven C. Thomas
  • Natural regulation or the control of nature? / Mark S. Boyce
  • The concept of overgrazing and its application to Yellowstone's Northern Range / Michael B. Coughenour and Francis J. Singer
  • Tall-willow communities on Yellowstone's Northern Range : a test of the "natural-regulation" paradigm / Steve W. Chadde and Charles E. Kay
  • Summer range and elk population dynamics in Yellowstone National Park / Evelyn H. Merrill and Mark S. Boyce
  • Brucellosis in free-ranging bison : three perspectives / E. Tom Thorne, Mary Meagher, and Robert Hillman
  • A prehistoric perspective on the Northern Range / Cathy Whitlock, Sherilyn C. Fritz, and Daniel R. Engstrom
  • Returning the wolf to Yellowstone / L. David Mech
  • The ungulate prey base for wolves in Yellowstone National Park / Francis J. Singer
  • Population dynamics and home range changes in a colonizing wolf population / Robert R. Ream [and others]
  • Public attitudes about wolf restoration in Yellowstone National Park / Alistair J. Bath
  • Greater Yellowstone's future : ecosystem management in a wilderness environment / Robert B. Keiter and Mark S. Boyce.