Author: Michael S. KellyPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages :
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Great Basin Land-use Patterns
Author: Michael S. KellyPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Size of the Risk
Author: Leisl Carr ChildersPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806152532
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple use concept, a management philosophy that promises equitable access to the region’s resources and economic gain to those who live there. Multiple use was originally conceived as a way to legitimize the historical use of public lands for grazing without precluding future uses, such as outdoor recreation, weapons development, and wildlife management. It was applied to the Great Basin to bring the region, once seen as worthless, into the national economic fold. Land managers, ranchers, mining interests, wilderness and wildlife advocates, outdoor recreationists, and even the military adopted this ideology to accommodate, promote, and sanction a multitude of activities on public lands, particularly those overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. Some of these uses are locally driven and others are nationally mandated, but all have exacted a cost from the region’s human and natural environment. In The Size of the Risk, Leisl Carr Childers shows how different constituencies worked to fill the presumed “empty space” of the Great Basin with a variety of land-use regimes that overlapped, conflicted, and ultimately harmed the environment and the people who depended on the region for their livelihoods. She looks at the conflicts that arose from the intersection of an ever-increasing number of activities, such as nuclear testing and wild horse preservation, and how Great Basin residents have navigated these conflicts. Carr Childers’s study of multiple use in the Great Basin highlights the complex interplay between the state, society, and the environment, allowing us to better understand the ongoing reality of living in the American West.
The One Allotment to Bare Them All
Author: Noel M. JonesPublisher:
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Category : Archaeological site location
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This thesis presents a fine-grained analysis of the Bare Allotment, a 202,000-acre land tract in the northwestern corridor of the Great Basin. By examining the relationships between archaeological site locations and the natural resources available within the study area, the results of this research contribute to understandings of land use mobility patterns not only within this particular area, but also the larger Great Basin as a whole. Consequently, this study has merits for both the academic and resource management sides of archaeology. Geographic Information Systems served as the primary method of investigation to address these spatial patterns of behavior. Processualist and Human Behavioral Ecology theories were utilized as the research questions required connecting the unobservable past to the archaeological record and natural environment. The key findings of this research include that the procurement of lithic materials matches that of other areas in the Great Basin, different habitats were more suitable than others for occupation/use, and that events towards the Terminal Prehistoric caused a dramatic shift in occupation/use. It was also established that the main site type within Bare was simple flaked stone scatter, indicating that the principal activity taking place was hunting. This investigation of the Bare Allotment validates archaeological research at the smaller scale.
Land Use and Its Pattern in the United States
Author: Francis Joseph MarschnerPublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Land Use and Its Patterns in the United States
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Changes in Washoe Land Use Patterns
Author: Charles D. ZeierPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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A Culture Resource Overview of the Bureau of Land Management, Coleville, Bodie, Benton and Owens Valley Planning Units, California
Author: Colin I. BusbyPublisher:
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Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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