Drawing on historical perspectives, personal excursions, and decades of professional research and work in the field, Paul Schullery illuminates many of the possible truths embedded within the natural and cultural reality that is Yellowstone National Park. By varying the scale of observation from a single encounter between a cow elk and a grizzly bear to the sweeping forces of evolution Schullery celebrates the park s history and future potential as a laboratory of ideas. It is, as he states, a place with layers of meaning waiting to be explored . . . many possible truths to be weighed. He...