"Originally published by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2016."

Prologue -- Part I : American Eden : Los Angeles -- American Eden -- Yosemite and Yellowstone -- Appalachian Spring -- Frank -- The balance of nature -- Berkeley -- Claypool -- Smitty -- Trout Creek -- Part II : Natural regulation : -- The big kill -- Starker -- Prometheus -- Observable artificiality in any form -- Reconstruction -- Cole -- The night of the grizzlies -- Natural control -- Bad blood -- Bear management committee -- Firehole -- The temptation of Starker Leopold -- Natural regulation -- Part III : Take it easy : -- Last straws -- Take it easy -- Old Faithful -- The search for Harry Walker -- Part IV : Human nature : -- Martha Shell -- B-1 -- The disciple -- The verdict -- The appeal -- Epilogue -- Afterword.