The environmental politics and policy of western public lands /
The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and oft-contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a variety of stakeholders, including extractive industries like oil and timber, farmers, ranchers and fishers, Native Americans, tourists and environmenta...
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Corvallis :
Oregon State University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Kathleen Dean Moore
- Part I The changing west
- 1 The old west, the new west and the next west / Donna L Lybecker
- 2 Western public land law and the evolving management landscape / John Ruple
- 3 Rangeland policy and management in a changing west: political marginalization and a crisis of trust / Mark W Brunson
- Part II Forest, wildfire and water
- 4 Professionalism versus politics: the century-long battle over national forest policy / Tom M Koontz and Christean Jenkins
- 5 Wildland fire policy and climate change: evolution of fire policy and current needs / Eric Toman
- 6 The changing fate of western rivers: the case of the Colorado / Doug Kenney
- Part III Wilderness and wildlife
- 7 Wild places and irreplaceable resources: protecting wilderness and national monuments / John Ruple
- 8 National parks: preserving America's natural and cultural heritage / Robert B Keiter
- 9 Introduction to wildlife management of pubic lands / Lauren Anderson
- 10 Endangered species, wildlife corridors, and climate change in the US west / Jodi a Hilty, et al
- Part IV Development, sovereignty and conflict in the west
- 11 Renewable energy development in the American West / Anna Karmazina
- 12 Regulating oil and gas on federal lands under Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump / Charles Davis
- 13 Mining on federal land: policy and costs of doing business / P Casey Giordano
- 14 Implications of tribal sovereignty, federal trust responsibility, and congressional plenary authority for native american lands management / Shane Day
- 15 Western rebellion: who owns the west? / Christopher A Simon, et al
- 16 Conclusion: the old west, the new west, and the next west? / Brent S steel, et al.