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From the Publisher: Sewage seeping into creeks, crumbling cabins and disintegrating roads, dilapidated visitor centers, catastrophic wildfires: these are some of the sights awaiting visitors to federal lands today. Federal agencies in charge of the public domain call for more support in the form of taxpayer dollars while constantly seeking to add to their holdings; environmental groups call for increased restrictions on land use and resource development;...
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"'The process of transfer to private ownership of government land or government-supervised Indian land was the woof thread on the loom of the frontier,' the author writes in his preface. 'This thread was continually interlaced with hard experiences in the struggle for existence, thus weaving the fabric of the social and economic history of the American frontier. My aim in this book is to trace this thread from government ownership of the land into...
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"How is it 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 territory as public lands? Considering this intriguing question, Randall K. Wilson traces the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America's public land system. The result is a probing account of the most pressing policy and management challenges facing...
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At the present time, the United States federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land, including national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and several hundred million miscellaneous acres. Managing these properties is expensive and often contentious, and few management decisions escape criticism. Some observers, however, argue that this criticism is misdirected, that the fundamental problem is collective ownership itself;...
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"Every American has a landed inheritance. It is the public domain--land owned and administered by the federal government and held in trust for the people of the United States, all of the people of the United States. Created in the years preceding and following the Revolutionary War and enlarged as America spread west from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, this national legacy at its greatest included more than two billion acres of land....
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"In response to the national strategy, the BLM is releasing this action plan to provide a path forward to help the BLM attract and welcome domestic and international visitors to travel within the United States. This action plan provides a comprehensive framework for managing travel and tourism. It identifies sustainable tourism-based actions that the BLM will take to provide exceptional opportunities for domestic and international visitors, contribute...
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America's national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Managemnt holdings, and other Federally owned areas encompass more than 700 million acres. This volume covers the beauty of the American landscape and wildlife and the threats that development presents to these national treasures. It also chronicles the history of the Federal lands, their many uses, the laws and policies that affect them, and the problems these areas face, and...
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