George Meléndez Wright: The Fight for Wildlife and Wilderness in the National Parks

by Jerry Emory

The first biography of a visionary biologist whose groundbreaking ideas regarding wildlife and science revolutionized national parks.

When twenty-three-year-old George Mel?ndez 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226824942
• ISBN13: 9780226824949
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"