Title
America's Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
How is it 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? Considering this intriguing question, Randall K. Wilson traces 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 them off and the subsequent emergence of a national conservation ideal.
ISBN
9781442207974
Publication Date
4-2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
City
Lanham, MD
Department 1
Environmental Studies
Recommended Citation
Wilson, Randall K. America's Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
Comments
Original version is available from the publisher at: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442207974