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In Visions upon the Land, Karl Hess, Jr., a leading thinker on western environmental issues, applies the concepts of laissez-faire politics to the management of western rangelands. He looks at how the history of the American West has been shaped by people's visions of the land as it should be, rather than as it is, and proposes a radical new system for the management of western public lands. Hess argues that three distinct visions - the Jeffersonian...
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From the man many consider to be the preeminent expert on the law of the American West, comes an indispensable and passionate exploration of the crucial questions the West faces. In The Eagle Bird, already hailed by Wallace Stegner as "the best handbook that I know for anyone who wants to know the history of the West and its probable future," Charles Wilkinson assesses the battles being fought over the region's resources and how the conflict between...
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To most Americans - and even to most Westerners - water policy seems to be a complicated, hypertechnical, and incomprehensible subject: a tangle of engineering jargon and legalese surrounding a complex, delicate, and interrelated structure. Decisions concerning the public's waters involve precious little public participation, and under such circumstances, reform seems risky at best.
Searching Out the Headwaters seeks to address the situation by providing...
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"Yellowstone holds a special place in America's heart. As the world's first national park, it is globally recognized as the crown jewel of modern environmental preservation. But the park and its surrounding regions have recently become a lightning rod for environmental conflict, plagued by intense and intractable political struggles among the federal government, National Park Service, environmentalists, industry, local residents, and elected officials....
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