Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Office of the Solicitor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water rights
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
BLM Water Rights
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Office of the Solicitor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water rights
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water rights
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
This Land
Author: Christopher Ketcham
Publisher:
ISBN: 0735220980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"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"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 0735220980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"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"--
Manual Transmittal
Author: United States. Internal Revenue Service
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nonprofit organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nonprofit organizations
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Riparian Areas
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309082951
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309082951
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.
Utah BLM Statewide Wilderness Environmental Impact Statement : Final: pts. A-C. Public comments
Author: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Utah State Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Marine Managed Areas
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Handbook on best practices for marine managed areas boundary making within a geographic information systems framework. Covers federal, State, and local marine managed areas. Produced under the auspices of the Federal Geographic Data Committee's Marine Boundary Working Group
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Handbook on best practices for marine managed areas boundary making within a geographic information systems framework. Covers federal, State, and local marine managed areas. Produced under the auspices of the Federal Geographic Data Committee's Marine Boundary Working Group
Water Quality and the Environment
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquaculture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aquaculture industry
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Hearing on Grazing Reductions and Other Issues on BLM Lands
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Management of Livestock Grazing on Federal Lands by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grazing districts
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grazing districts
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Our Public Lands
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description