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Summary: Living on Mountain Time
Review: As in his other books on Yellowstone, Schullery synthesizes history, science, and memoir into an engaging and engrossing read. I have spent years around the park and this book contained much that was new to me. There is a warmth and a dignity to Schullery's writing that befits our oldest national park. Unusual for an on-the-record Park Service employee, Schullery does have his own opinions. There are friends and enemies. In the twenty years since this book was originally published, the world of Yellowstone has changed. Its greatest threat does not come from extractive and exploitative corporations, nor a complicitous government, nor even from the dingbat Congressional delegation attached to its home states. Rather, it comes from the citizenry that most professes to cherish the resource. People like you and me who are loving it to death, slicing subdivisions into critical habitat in a fevered quest for their piece of the West. Ahhh, but Yellowstone belongs as much to the sunburned bricklayer from Ohio and his sausage-legged wife as it does to me. Schullery understands that this land was made for you and me, no matter how difficult the mediation between user groups. And as the title of the book reminds us, Yellowstone is indeed on mountain time. All the snowmobilers and timber company executives and tree-hugging commies who visit the park this year will be rotting in their graves in a hundred years but Yellowstone will endure in spite of us.
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Summary: Wonders of Yellowstone
Review: This is a wonderfully engaging book on life in one of natures wonders, Yellowstone National Park. Paul Schullery offers a glimpse into both the life of our oldest National Park, and the life of a park ranger. Schullery gives us opportunity to vicariously know the park and experience the wonders of living and working in this natural cathederal. Schullery is very witty and offers accounts of the crazy encounters of those touring this grand daddy of all natural attractions. This is an engaging and relaxing read.
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Summary: Wonders of Yellowstone
Review: This is a wonderfully engaging book on life in one of natures wonders, Yellowstone National Park. Paul Schullery offers a glimpse into both the life of our oldest National Park, and the life of a park ranger. Schullery gives us opportunity to vicariously know the park and experience the wonders of living and working in this natural cathederal. Schullery is very witty and offers accounts of the crazy encounters of those touring this grand daddy of all natural attractions. This is an engaging and relaxing read.
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