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.
America's Public Lands
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.
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.
Legislative Reports and Speeches
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Speech ... on the Public Lands; the policy of distributing the proceeds thereof among the states ... Delivered in the House of Representatives, ... June 10, 1842
Author: William L. GOGGIN
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Speech ... in Favor of Grants of Public Lands for Railroads
Author: Augustus Emmett Maxwell
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Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Report of the Public Lands Commission
Author: United States. Public Lands Commission (1903-1905)
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings to the Governor of the State of Nebraska
Author: Nebraska. Board of Educational Lands and Funds
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The Register of Debates; Being a Report of the Speeches Delivered in the Two Houses of Congress ... 23rd Congress, 1st Session
Author: United States. Congress
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay
Author: Henry Clay
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings to the Governor of the State of Nebraska
Author: Nebraska. Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Speeches
Author: Henry Clay
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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