Status Updates From Playing God in Yellowstone:...

Yo, hold up, you're NOT ending this on a request for money? Is that legal?

Sure, "sustenance ecology" if it makes you happy, but you're actually talking about tending the garden, which circles back to the Christianity all the disparate parties involved in Yellowstone abandoned so long ago.

Oh no, pantheism didn't solve everything! Who could have foreseen this?

Considering what has become of San Fran since then, one finds it troublesome to think Muir didn't have a point, even if his religious reasoning was more than a little suspect.

Curiously, the first modern article I pulled up about this states that Yellowstone is "not due to erupt" because of various and sundry (not very convincingly laid out) reasons, yet the timeline since its previous eruption has been conspicuously shortened still further than was the case in this book.
Maybe the apocalypse is nigh after all. That'd be neat.

Evidence leading away from millions of years, reducing it to thousands and then maybe even present? Color me shocked.

Yes, yes, yes, millions and millions of years. You've said it, now you can go have a lie down.

No wonder all the real field researchers went to Africa post WWII and the subject of American wildlife was left unexplored.

Okay, but now I want to know why I've never seen a horror movie about an evil village that builds itself in the middle of the wilderness, luring tourists to their bear mauling deaths.

Bloody hell, this "village" nobody wants has more lives than a cat.
Also there's no possible way this chapter didn't influence the history Crichton created for Jurassic Park XD

With names like "Mission 66" and "Master Plan" how could these ideas possibly fail? XD

Ah yes, poke the apex predator. That trick always works. Except when it absolutely doesn't and never has. This is going to work swimmingly.
Oh no, it didn't work.

1.2 million actual dollars to investigate themselves, find nothing wrong, and do no work. I should go into Park management.

Somehow, the Park's claims that wolves, cougars and bears are in the park and definitely doing well starts to sound a little bit like The Dead Parrot Sketch.