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.
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.
Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Why Public Lands? Rethinking Old Stories Setting the Stage Part I: ORIGINS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 1 Building the National Commons Colonial Antecedents The National Commons Expands The Federal Indian Reserved Lands Summing Up 2 Disposing of the Public Domain: From Commons to Commodity Privatizing the Commons: Two Visions The Homestead Acts, Land Grants, and Railroads Logging, Ranching, and Mining Federal Indian Reserved Lands Revisited The First Public Land Policy? 3 A Public Land System Emerges Tragedy of the National Commons From Crisis to Conservation Building the Public Land System Part II: AMERICA'S PUBLIC LAND SYSTEM 4 National Parks The Story of Yellowstone John Muir and Yosemite Teddy Roosevelt and the Antiquities Act The Fight for Hetch Hetchy Stephen Mather and the National Park Service The Jackson Hole Conflict and Postwar Expansion Stewart Udall, Jimmy Carter, and Alaska From Deregulation to Collaboration . . . and Back Again Parks in the Twenty-First Century The 2016 Park Service Centennial and Beyond Cases 5 National Forests The First Forest Reserves The 1897 Forest Organic Act Gifford Pinchot and the USDA Forest Service A Burning Issue: Fire Policy The Idea of Multiple Use Clear-Cutting, NFMA, and Below-Cost Timber Sales Conflict Soars to New Heights: The Northern Spotted Owl The Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 The Twenty-First Century and the Triple Threat Coming Full Circle Cases 6 National Wildlife Refuges Who Owns Wildlife? State Rights and the Separation of Land and Life Sport Hunting and Conservation, or When a Refuge Is Not a Refuge The First (Actual) National Wildlife Refuge Going International to Save the National Commons Building a Federal Wildlife Agency But What Are Refuges For? Turning the Corner to Conservation The 2000s: From Deregulation to Historic Expansion Refuges under Siege Cases 7 Bureau of Land Management Lands Rethinking the Unwanted Lands: John Wesley Powell Tragedies of the (Rangeland) Commons The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 Creating the BLM The BLM Organic Act 1980s and 1990s: From Sagebrush Rebellion to Rangeland Reform Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument The National Landscape Conservation System The New Century: To Drill or Not to Drill? What Will the BLM Stand For? Cases 8 National Wilderness Preservation System Origins: The Wilderness Idea Aldo Leopold and the First Wilderness Bob Marshall and the Wilderness Society Howard Zahniser and the Wilderness Act of 1964 The Wilderness Act in Practice Wilderness and the National Forests Expanding the Wilderness System The Next Fifty Years Cases 9 National Wild and Scenic Rivers and Trails Wild and Scenic Rivers Case: The Klamath River National Scenic and Historic Trails Case: The North Country Trail 10 Parting Thoughts Mapping Conceptual Continuities Diversity within the Public Land System The Promise of Collaborative Conservation Appendix A: Major U.S. Public Land Laws and Other Key Turning Points Appendix B: Units within the National Park System Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Why Public Lands? Rethinking Old Stories Setting the Stage Part I: ORIGINS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 1 Building the National Commons Colonial Antecedents The National Commons Expands The Federal Indian Reserved Lands Summing Up 2 Disposing of the Public Domain: From Commons to Commodity Privatizing the Commons: Two Visions The Homestead Acts, Land Grants, and Railroads Logging, Ranching, and Mining Federal Indian Reserved Lands Revisited The First Public Land Policy? 3 A Public Land System Emerges Tragedy of the National Commons From Crisis to Conservation Building the Public Land System Part II: AMERICA'S PUBLIC LAND SYSTEM 4 National Parks The Story of Yellowstone John Muir and Yosemite Teddy Roosevelt and the Antiquities Act The Fight for Hetch Hetchy Stephen Mather and the National Park Service The Jackson Hole Conflict and Postwar Expansion Stewart Udall, Jimmy Carter, and Alaska From Deregulation to Collaboration . . . and Back Again Parks in the Twenty-First Century The 2016 Park Service Centennial and Beyond Cases 5 National Forests The First Forest Reserves The 1897 Forest Organic Act Gifford Pinchot and the USDA Forest Service A Burning Issue: Fire Policy The Idea of Multiple Use Clear-Cutting, NFMA, and Below-Cost Timber Sales Conflict Soars to New Heights: The Northern Spotted Owl The Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 The Twenty-First Century and the Triple Threat Coming Full Circle Cases 6 National Wildlife Refuges Who Owns Wildlife? State Rights and the Separation of Land and Life Sport Hunting and Conservation, or When a Refuge Is Not a Refuge The First (Actual) National Wildlife Refuge Going International to Save the National Commons Building a Federal Wildlife Agency But What Are Refuges For? Turning the Corner to Conservation The 2000s: From Deregulation to Historic Expansion Refuges under Siege Cases 7 Bureau of Land Management Lands Rethinking the Unwanted Lands: John Wesley Powell Tragedies of the (Rangeland) Commons The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 Creating the BLM The BLM Organic Act 1980s and 1990s: From Sagebrush Rebellion to Rangeland Reform Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument The National Landscape Conservation System The New Century: To Drill or Not to Drill? What Will the BLM Stand For? Cases 8 National Wilderness Preservation System Origins: The Wilderness Idea Aldo Leopold and the First Wilderness Bob Marshall and the Wilderness Society Howard Zahniser and the Wilderness Act of 1964 The Wilderness Act in Practice Wilderness and the National Forests Expanding the Wilderness System The Next Fifty Years Cases 9 National Wild and Scenic Rivers and Trails Wild and Scenic Rivers Case: The Klamath River National Scenic and Historic Trails Case: The North Country Trail 10 Parting Thoughts Mapping Conceptual Continuities Diversity within the Public Land System The Promise of Collaborative Conservation Appendix A: Major U.S. Public Land Laws and Other Key Turning Points Appendix B: Units within the National Park System Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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