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

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The flora and fauna management controversy over the deer on the Kaibab Plateau, north of the Grand Canyon, remains one of the most best-known examples of nature’s balance being upset by human efforts to offer protection to a certain aspect of nature. The controversy involves an apparent deer population explosion and crash on the Kaibab Plateau in the 1920s, which used to be to start with blamed on the removal of natural predators.

In the first comprehensive account of the Kaibab deer controversy, Christian C. Young describes the interactions, rivalries, and conflicts between state and federal agencies, scientists, nature lovers, conservationists, and hunters. Young blends a contextualized history of events with a new and more useful understanding about the promise of scientific knowledge in the face of factual uncertainty and public controversy.

Scientists and historians have used this case to illustrate the difficulties of controlling wild populations. Their message is in most cases one of failure, and the reason most regularly given centers on our lack of expertise of the flora and fauna. As such, the burden of failure seems to rest on scientists, who work diligently but at all times seem to offer too little too late in the way of practical advice. Since our knowledge of the flora and fauna will at all times be incomplete, Young argues that our ability to investigate nature requires flexible and interactive management plans. He shows how earlier “truths” learned on the Kaibab came to be recognized as myths and offers a compelling lesson about how science and society interact within challenging contexts of disagreement.


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