These American Lands

Parks, Wilderness, and the Public Lands: Revised and Expanded Edition

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Business & Finance, Industries & Professions, Industries
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Author: Dyan Zaslowsky, Tom H. Watkins ISBN: 9781610913447
Publisher: Island Press Publication: July 1, 1994
Imprint: Island Press Language: English
Author: Dyan Zaslowsky, Tom H. Watkins
ISBN: 9781610913447
Publisher: Island Press
Publication: July 1, 1994
Imprint: Island Press
Language: English

Over 634 million acres of the United States -- nearly a million square miles -- are federally owned. These American Lands is both a history and a celebration of that inheritance. First published in 1986, the book was hailed by Wallace Stegner as "the only indispensable narrative history of the public lands." This completely revised and updated edition is an unsurpassed resource for everyone who cares about, visits, or works with public land in the United States. With over 75 pages of new material, the volume covers:
•national parks
•national forests
•national resource lands
•wildlife refuges
•designated wildernesses
•wild and scenic rivers
•Alaska lands
•national trails

Each chapter outlines the history of the unit of public lands under discussion, clarifies the resource use and policy conflicts that are currently besetting it, and provides a detailed agenda of management, expansion, and preservation goals.

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Over 634 million acres of the United States -- nearly a million square miles -- are federally owned. These American Lands is both a history and a celebration of that inheritance. First published in 1986, the book was hailed by Wallace Stegner as "the only indispensable narrative history of the public lands." This completely revised and updated edition is an unsurpassed resource for everyone who cares about, visits, or works with public land in the United States. With over 75 pages of new material, the volume covers:
•national parks
•national forests
•national resource lands
•wildlife refuges
•designated wildernesses
•wild and scenic rivers
•Alaska lands
•national trails

Each chapter outlines the history of the unit of public lands under discussion, clarifies the resource use and policy conflicts that are currently besetting it, and provides a detailed agenda of management, expansion, and preservation goals.

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