YELLOWSTONE? WHAT DOES IT MEAN>

Justin Farrell, The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2015) (From the book cover: "Justin Farrell argues that the battle for Yellowstone has deep moral, cultural, and spiritual roots that until now have been obscured by the supposedly rational and technical nature of the conflict. Tracing in unprecedented detail the moral cause and consequences of large-scale social change in the American West, he describes how a 'new-west' social order has emerged that has devalued traditional American beliefs about manifest destiny and rugged individualism, and how the morality and spirituality have influenced the most polarizing and techno-centric conflicts in Yellowstone's history.").