• ENP 4.3 GYE: Yellowstone and its future with David Quammen 
  10/11/2017
  Bryan talks with David Quammen, author of both fiction and non-fiction, and the sole writer of National Geographic Magazine’s May 2016 issue on Yellowstone in honor of the centennial of the National Park Service. He also published Yellowstone: A Journey Through America’s Wild Heart” in August of 2016. They talk about a number of issues affecting the park. 
  
  Discussion includes the following:

  • Is Yellowstone too small? Yellowstone National Park as a part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and how animals move beyond the boundaries of the park (1:38).
  • Is Yellowstone being loved to death? (5:55)
  • Creeping Crisis (10:45)
  • Impact of visitation (12:58)
  • Lake trout and invasive species (20:20)
  • Interconnectedness of ecology and policy: rescue of the American Bison (27:52)
  • Wolf conservation (35:25)
  • What gives us hope? Optimism, positive stories including grizzly bears (40:14)
  • How to be a good visitor and friend to the park (42:12)

  
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  CATEGORIES: Podcasts, Yellowstone
  

Resources

• David Quammen
  
• “YELLOWSTONE: A Journey Through America’s Wild Heart”
  
• Part 1: Learning to Let the Wild Be Wild in Yellowstone by David Quammen
  
• Part 2: The Yellowstone We Don't See: A Struggle of Life and Death by David Quammen
  
• Part 3: Yellowstone's Future Hangs on a Question: Who Owns the West? by David Quammen
  
• Map of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
  
• Greater Yellowstone Coalition