In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau

by Christian C. Young

The wildlife management controversy over the deer on the Kaibab Plateau, north of the Grand Canyon, remains one of the best-known examples of nature's balance being upset by human efforts to protect a certain aspect of nature. The controversy involves an apparent deer population explosion and crash on the Kaibab Plateau in the 1920s, which was initially blamed on the removal of natural predators.

In the first comprehensive account of the Kaibab...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803249160
• ISBN13: 9780803249165
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"