America’s National Parks

Series Editor: Michael Welsh (University of Northern Colorado)

America’s National Parks promotes the close investigation of the complex and often contentious history of the nation’s many national parks, sites, and monuments. Their creation and management raises a number of critical questions from such fields as archaeology, geology and history, biology, political science, and sociology, as well as geography, literature, and aesthetics. Books in this series aim to spark public conversation about these landscapes’ enduring value, by probing such diverse topics as ecological restoration, environmental justice, tourism and recreation, tribal relations, the production and consumption of nature, and the implications of wildland fire and wilderness protection. Even as these engaging texts cross interdisciplinary boundaries, they will also dig deeply into the local meanings embedded in individual parks, monuments, or landmarks and locate these special places within the larger context of American environmental culture.

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Devils Hole Pupfish

The Unexpected Survival of an Endangered Species in the Modern American West

by Kevin C. Brown

ISBN: 9781647790103

Pub Date: 7 September 2021

Format: Paperback

256 Pages

The Devils Hole pupfish is one of the rarest vertebrate animals on the planet; its only natural habitat is a ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Death Valley, on the Nevada—California border. Isolation in Devils Hole made the fish different from its close genetic relatives, but as Devils Hole Pupfish explores, what has made the species a survivor is its many surprising connections to the people who have studied, ignored, protested or protected it.

Big Bend National Park

Mexico, the United States, and a Borderland Ecosystem

by Michael Welsh

ISBN: 9781948908825

Pub Date: 6 April 2021

Format: Paperback

288 Pages

Known as a place of stark beauty, dramatic geographic dimension, and challenging desert terrain, Big Bend National Park is located in West Texas on the north bank of the Rio Grande, adjacent to the...