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These American Lands

Parks, Wilderness, and the Public Lands: Revised and Expanded Edition
  • ISBN-13: 9781559632409
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Dyan Zaslowsky, By Tom H. Watkins
  • Price: AUD $110.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/09/1994
  • Format: Paperback 416 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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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.

  • Dedication
    Foreword to the Revised Edition
    A Note from the Authors
     
    Introduction: The View from Home
    Chapter 1. The Pleasuring Grounds
    Chapter 2. A Heart of Wood
    Chapter 3. The Leftover Legacy
    Chapter 4. Islands of Life
    Chapter 5. The Freedom of the Wilderness
    Chapter 6. Inland Passages
    Chapter 7. The State of Nature
     
    Appendix A. The Public Lands And Major Public Land Legislation of the United States
    Appendix B. Wilderness Designations, Wild and Scenic River Designations, and Park Additions Made since 1985
    Selected Bibliography
    Additional Readings
    Index
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