Return of the Wild: The Future Of Our National Lands
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Rating | : | 4.80 (883 Votes) |
Asin | : | 155963927X |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 225 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-10-10 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Five Stars" according to Theresa. Love anything and everything Mr. Kerasote does!. A Customer said Compelling treatise for saving wilderness. This book does a marvelous job, through its various voices, of making the case for protecting our publicly owned domain as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The essayists are some of today's most renown nature and political writers, and the content and flow of the pieces are very readable, very accessible. The general public will derive great benefit from this work, but so, too, will decision-makers and opinion leaders find it
This volume contends that efforts to recycle and conserve energy must be augmented with advocacy for the protection of wild spaces, and that this book is an important underpinning for that endeavour. It acts as a guide to relevant issues, a history, a forum for debate and a source of information.