Books

NRCC has a long history of publishing. From white papers and academic reports to our semi-annual newsletters, we strive to make all of the rich knowledge of our associates accessible in print form. Below is a sampling of books published with support from NRCC. Links to buying options are also provided.

Coexisting

Coexisting with Large Carnivores: Lessons from Greater Yellowstone (2005) was edited by Susan G. Clark, Murray Rutherford, and Denise Casey, and was the result of a research collaboration between interns Karen Murray, Lyn Munno, and Greg McLaughlin, Dylan Taylor, and Jason Wilmot, now NRCC's executive director. This volume will interest anyone involved with or concerned about the management and conservation of large carnivores in Greater Yellowstone, North America, or elsewhere in the world. Learning to coexist with large carnivores—that is, conserving their populations and ecosystems over the long term, while at the same time allowing humans and human communities to thrive—is not an easy task. Like many other resource management problems, it is fraught with intense conflict, historical baggage, and complexity on multiple levels. However, we have an opportunity and an obligation to learn the skills needed for coexistence now, at what may be the eleventh hour for many carnivores and their ecosystems. We hope that this volume will encourage managers, researchers, government officials, ranchers, and anyone else who is affected by problems associated with large carnivores to redouble their efforts and put in place workable, democratic means to resolve differences and find common ground. This book can be purchased directly from Island Press.

 

Finding Common GroundFinding Common Ground: Governance and Natural Resources in the American West (2002), by Ronald D. Brunner, Christine H. Colburn, Christina Cromley, Roberta A. Klein, and Elizabeth Olson, is the outcome of a workshop organized by Susan Clark and Ronald Brunner in 1998. It examines the scope of governance problems surrounding natural resource policy issues in four in-depth case studies from around the West: water management in the Upper Clark Fork River, Montana; wolf recovery in the Northern Rockies; bison management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; and forest policy in northern California. Lessons are drawn from these case studies to make future policy decisions more effective. For a sample, Christina Cromley's chapter on bison management in greater Yellowstone may be reviewed here. For purchasing information, visit Yale University Press.