From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1559639563 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Drawing upon their experiences as agency insiders, Michael Dombeck, Christopher Wood, and Jack Williams bring not only a wealth of experience and insights to the task, but a refreshing sense of candor and openness about the internal conflicts, competing interests, and contradictions in the federal agencies charged with managing our public lands in From Conquest to Conservation."
Drawing heavily on fellow Forest Service employee Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, they offer specific suggestions for new directions in policy and management that can help maintain and restore the health, diversity, and productivity of public land and water resources, both now and into the future. Also featured are lyrical and heartfelt essays from leading writers, thinkers, and scientists— including Bruce Babbitt, Rick Bass, Patricia Nelson Limerick, and Gaylord Nelson—about the importance of public lands and the threats to them, along with original drawings by William Millonig.. Chris Wood and Jack Williams have similarly spent their careers working to steward public resources, and the authors bring unparalleled insight into the challenges facing public lands and how those challenges can be met.Here, they examine the history of public lands in the United States and consider the most pressing environmental and social problems facing public lands. As chief of the Forest Service, Mike Dombeck became a lightning rod for public debate over issues such as the management of old-growth forests and protecting roadless areas. From Conquest to Conservation is a visionary new work from three of the nation’s most knowledgeable experts on public lands. Dombeck also dire
J. Hintz said soooo repetitive!. I am very disappointed with this book. The writing is fine. It is clear and accessible to a lay audience. Much of the material in important as well. All that said, the book is largely a failure because it is so repetitive and poorly organized that there is