George Melndez Wright - 9780226824949

The University of Chicago Press

George Melndez WrightThe Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks\nAuthor(s): Jerry Emory\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226824949, 978-0226824949\nSynopsis\nThe first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks.\n When twenty-three-year-old George Melndez Wright arrived in Yosemite National Park in 1927 to work as a ranger naturalistthe first Hispanic person to occupy any professional position in the National Park Service (NPS)he had already visited every national park in the western United States, including McKinley (now Denali) in Alaska. Two years later, he would organize the first science-based wildlife survey of the western parks, forever changing how the NPS would manage wildlife and natural resources. At a time when national parks routinely fed bears garbage as part of shows and killed b.