George Meléndez Wright
George Meléndez Wright
The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks
University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226824949
Fecha de Publicación:
2023 April
$28.00 USD
Breve descripción (SPA)
La primera biografía de un biólogo visionario cuyas ideas innovadoras sobre la vida silvestre y la ciencia revolucionaron los parques nacionales. Cuando George Meléndez Wright, de veintitrés años, llegó al Parque Nacional Yosemite en 1927 para trabajar como guardabosques naturalista, la primera persona hispana en ocupar un puesto profesional en el Servicio de Parques Nacionales (NPS), ya había visitado todos los parques nacionales en el oeste de los Estados Unidos. Dos años más tarde, organizaría el primer estudio de vida silvestre basado en la ciencia de los parques del oeste, cambiando para siempre la forma en que el NPS administraría la vida silvestre y los recursos naturales.
Breve descrição (POR)
A primeira biografia de um biólogo visionário cujas ideias inovadoras sobre vida selvagem e ciência revolucionaram os parques nacionais. Quando George Meléndez Wright, de 23 anos, chegou ao Parque Nacional de Yosemite em 1927 para trabalhar como guarda florestal naturalista, o primeiro hispânico a ocupar um cargo profissional no National Park Service (NPS), ele já havia visitado todos os parques nacionais no mundo, oeste dos Estados Unidos. Dois anos depois, ele organizaria o primeiro estudo científico da vida selvagem dos parques ocidentais, mudando para sempre a maneira como o NPS administraria a vida selvagem e os recursos naturais.
Full description (ENG)
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 refuges on the US-Mexico border. To this day, he remains a celebrated figure among conservationists, wildlife experts, and park managers. In this book, Jerry Emory, a conservationist and writer connected to Wright’s family, draws on hundreds of letters, field notes, archival research, interviews, and more to offer both a biography of Wright and a historical account of a crucial period in the evolution of US parks and the wilderness movement. With a foreword by former NPS director Jonathan B. Jarvis, George Meléndez Wright is a celebration of Wright’s unique upbringing, dynamism, and enduring vision that places him at last in the pantheon of the great American conservationists.
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