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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
BLM, Public Rewards from Public Lands, 2003
Author: Public Rewards from Public Lands
Author: Wind Energy Development on BLM-administered Lands in the Western United States
Author: Montana Alberta Tie Ltd., 230-kV Transmission Line
Author: The Nation's Largest Landlord
Author: James R. SkillenPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700618953
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
It is the largest landholder in America, overseeing nearly an eighth of the country: 258 million acres located almost exclusively west of the Mississippi River, with even twice as much below the surface. Its domain embraces wildlife and wilderness, timber, range, and minerals, and for over 60 years, the Bureau of Land Management has been an agency in search of a mission. This is the first comprehensive, analytical history of the BLM and its struggle to find direction. James Skillen traces the bureau's course over three periods—its formation in 1946 and early focus on livestock and mines, its 1970s role as mediator between commerce and conservation, and its experience of political gridlock since 1981 when it faced a powerful antienvironmental backlash. Focusing on events that have shaped the BLM's overall mission, organization, and culture, he takes up issues ranging from the National Environmental Policy Act to the Sagebrush Rebellion in order to paint a broad picture of the agency's changing role in the American West. Focusing on the vast array of lands and resources that the BLM manages, he explores the complex and at times contradictory ways that Americans have valued nature. Skillen shows that, although there have been fleeting moments of consensus over the purpose of national forests and parks, there has never been any such consensus over the federal purpose of the public lands overseen by the BLM. Highlighting the perennial ambiguities shadowing the BLM's domain and mission, Skillen exposes the confusion sown by conflicting congressional statutes, conflicting political agendas, and the perennial absence of public support. He also shows that, while there is room for improvement in federal land management, the criteria by which that improvement is measured change significantly over time. In the face of such ambiguity—political, social, and economic--Skillen argues that the agency's history of limited political power and uncertain mission has, ironically, better prepared it to cope with the more chaotic climate of federal land management in the twenty-first century. Indeed, operating in an increasingly crowded physical and political landscape, it seems clear that the BLM's mission will continue to be marked by ambiguity. For historians, students, public administrators, or anyone who cares about American lands, Skillen offers a cautionary tale for those still searching for a final solution to federal land and resource conflicts.
Outdoor Recreation in America
Author: Clayne R. JensenPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9780736042130
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This textbook provides comprehensive coverage of the development, regulation and management of outdoor recreation in America. The authors consider the challenges for outdoor recreation in the 21st century, such as its role within education, resources, planning and the environment.
Environmental Impacts of Natural Gas Supply
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Designation of Energy Corridors on Federal Land in 11 Western States
Author: Transactions of the ... North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Includes another issue of 1936 ed. without illus.
Author: James R. Skillen