America's Public Lands - Randall K. Wilson

America's Public Lands

From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond
Buch | Softcover
396 Seiten
2020 | Second Edition
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-2639-4 (ISBN)
43,65 inkl. MwSt
This updated edition traces the oft-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America’s public land system. The result is a fresh and compelling account of the most pressing challenges facing national parks, forests, rangelands, and wildlife refuges from their early beginnings through the first years of the Trump Administration.
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.

Randall K. Wilson is professor of environmental studies, Gettysburg College. The first edition of America’s Public Lands won the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers.

Introduction to the Second Edition
Introduction: Why Public Lands?
Part I. Origins of the Public Domain
Chapter 1 Building the National Commons
Chapter 2 Disposing the Public Domain
Chapter 3 A Public Land System Emerges
Part II. The Public Lands System
Chapter 4 National Parks
Chapter 5 National Forests
Chapter 6 National Wildlife Refuges
Chapter 7 Bureau of Land Management Lands
Chapter 8 National Wilderness Preservation System
Chapter 9 National Wild and Scenic Rivers and Trails
Chapter 10 Parting Thoughts.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 231 mm
Gewicht 517 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-5381-2639-7 / 1538126397
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-2639-4 / 9781538126394
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