America's Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond

America's Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond - Paperback

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America's Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond - Paperback

America's Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond - Paperback

by Randall K. Wilson
$80.91
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9781538126394
Author Randall K. Wilson
PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
GenreHobbies & interests, News & politics, and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2020
Edition2
LanguageENG- English
Pages396
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Randall K. Wilson

RANDALL K. WILSON, PhD, is a professor of environmental studies at Gettysburg College, where he teaches courses on environmental policy, natural resource management, sustainable communities, and the geography of the American West. He has served on the USDA Forest Service's National Science Panel and on the board of directors for the Rural Geography Specialty Group within the Association of American Geographers. He earned a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Vienna. His book America's Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond was named an Outstanding Academic Title from Choice Reviews and won John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers.

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