George Melendez Wright av Jerry Emory

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The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks. ¿When twenty-three-year-old George Meléndez Wright arrived in Yosemite National Park in 1927 to work as a ranger naturalist¿the 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 ¿bad¿ predators like wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes, Wright¿s new ideas for conservation set the stage for the modern scientific management of parks and other public lands. Tragically, Wright died in a 1936 car accident while working to establish parks and wildlife