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Author : Char Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 087071659X
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Christopher McGrory Klyza
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0807845671
Who Controls Public Lands?: Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990
Author : Randall K. Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538126400
How it is that the United States—the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world—has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as public lands? Now in a fully revised and updated edition covering the first years of the Trump administration, Randall Wilson considers this intriguing question, tracing the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America’s public land system. The result is a fresh and probing account of the most pressing policy and management challenges facing national parks, forests, rangelands, and wildlife refuges today. The author explores the dramatic story of the origins of the public domain, including the century-long effort to sell off land and the subsequent emergence of a national conservation ideal. Arguing that we cannot fully understand one type of public land without understanding its relation to the rest of the system, he provides in-depth accounts of the different types of public lands. With chapters on national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Management lands, and wilderness areas, Wilson examines key turning points and major policy debates for each land type, including recent Trump Administration efforts to roll back environmental protections. He considers debates ranging from national monument designations and bison management to gas and oil drilling, wildfire policy, the bark beetle epidemic, and the future of roadless and wilderness conservation areas. His comprehensive overview offers a chance to rethink our relationship with America’s public lands, including what it says about the way we relate to, and value, nature in the United States.
Author : John D. Leshy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9780300235784
The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.
Author : Erika Allen Wolters,Brent Steel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Environmental policy
ISBN : 0870710222
"The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and oft-contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a variety of stakeholders, including extractive industries like oil and timber; farmers, ranchers, and fishers; Native Americans; tourists; and environmentalists. Local, state, and government policies and approaches change according to the vagaries of scientific knowledge, the American and global economies, and political administrations. Occasionally, debates over public land usage erupt into major incidents, as with the armed occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. While a number of scholars work on the politics and policy of public land management, there has been no central book on the topic since the publication of Charles Davis's Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics (Westview, 2001). In The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands, Erika Allen Wolters and Brent Steel have assembled a stellar cast of scholars to consider long-standing issues and topics such as endangered species, land use, and water management while addressing more recent challenges to western public lands like renewable energy siting, fracking, Native American sovereignty, and land use rebellions. Chapters also address the impact of climate change on policy dimensions and scope. The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands is co-published with Oregon State University Open Educational Resources, who will release an open access edition alongside this print edition"--
Author : Christopher Ketcham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735221000
“A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time.” —Outside A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled, denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.
Author : George Cameron Coggins,Charles F. Wilkinson,John D. Leshy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060301020
This casebook is an authoritative introduction to the study of public land and resources law. Case studies, case notes, and examples illustrate points under consideration. Thought-provoking questions generate classroom discussion and hone students' legal reasoning. Representative topics include authority on public lands, wildlife resource, preservation, resource, and history of public land law.
Author : Alberta. Public Lands Division
Publisher : Edmonton, Alta. : Alberta Energy and Natural Resources, Public Lands Division
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Land use, Rural
ISBN : 0864990103
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Public lands
ISBN : MINN:31951P00437186U
Author : John B. Loomis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231505581
Integrated Public Lands Management is the only book that deals with the management procedures of all the primary public land management agencies—National Forests, Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and the Bureau of Land Management—in one volume. This book fills the need for a unified treatment of the analytical procedures used by federal land management agencies in planning and managing their diverse lands. The second edition charts the progress these agencies have made toward the management of their lands as ecosystems. It includes new U.S. Forest Service regulations, expanded coverage of Geographic Information Systems, and new legislation on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Wildlife Refuges.
Author : Michael P. Dombeck,Christopher A. Wood,Jack E. Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D02266622X
From Conquest to Conservation is a visionary new work from three of the nation’s most knowledgeable experts on public lands. As chief of the Forest Service, Mike Dombeck became a lightning rod for public debate over issues such as the management of old-growth forests and protecting roadless areas. Dombeck also directed the Bureau of Land Management from 1994 to 1997 and is the only person ever to have led the two largest land management agencies in the United States. Chris Wood and Jack Williams have similarly spent their careers working to steward public resources, and the authors bring unparalleled insight into the challenges facing public lands and how those challenges can be met. Here, they examine the history of public lands in the United States and consider the most pressing environmental and social problems facing public lands. Drawing heavily on fellow Forest Service employee Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, they offer specific suggestions for new directions in policy and management that can help maintain and restore the health, diversity, and productivity of public land and water resources, both now and into the future. Also featured are lyrical and heartfelt essays from leading writers, thinkers, and scientists— including Bruce Babbitt, Rick Bass, Patricia Nelson Limerick, and Gaylord Nelson—about the importance of public lands and the threats to them, along with original drawings by William Millonig.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000023044081
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030607105
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Environment and Land Resources Subcommittee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : UOM:39015008149034
Author : Stephen Nash
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520965249
Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research, Stephen Nash shows how accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape. In addition, a growing political movement, well financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these federal lands and return them to state, local, and private control. That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, which are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and also would devastate our national parks, forests, and other public lands. To safeguard wildlife and their habitats, it is essential to consolidate protected areas and prioritize natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling, and logging. Grand Canyon For Sale provides an excellent overview of the physical and biological challenges facing public lands. The book also exposes and shows how to combat the political activity that threatens these places in the U.S. today.
