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Author: John D. Leshy Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 030023578X Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Languages : en Pages : 736
Book Description
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: John D. Leshy Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 030023578X Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Languages : en Pages : 736
Book Description
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: Randall K. Wilson Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538126400 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 396
Book Description
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: Adam M. Sowards Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538125315 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Throughout American history, “public lands” have been the subject of controversy, from homesteaders settling the American west to ranchers who use the open range to promote free enterprise, to wilderness activists who see these lands as wild places. This book shows how these controversies intersect with critical issues of American history.
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management Publisher: ISBN: Category : Public lands Languages : en Pages : 108
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"The public lands of the United States represent a panorama of history which defy any brief treatment. Volume one of this two volume work presents an outline of the history of the public lands. Volume two, "Selected Public Land Documents," contains a selection of the more significant public laws, Congressional committee reports and papers on the public lands over the last 150 years. The two are presented in an effort to acquaint, and reacquaint, the reader with the fascinating and important development of the continental United States."--Foreword.
Author: John D. Leshy
Author: John D. Leshy
Author: United States. General Land Office
Author: Public Lands
Author: Randall K. Wilson
Author: Willis Drummond
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Author: Adam M. Sowards
Author: United States. General Land Office
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management