Creating Wilderness

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Making America S Public Lands

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Author : Adam M. Sowards
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2022-04-15

Making America S Public Lands written by Adam M. Sowards and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-15 with History categories.

In the United States, the federal government owns more than a quarter of the nation’s landscape—nearly 640 million acres; or more than a million square miles, which, if consolidated, would make it the tenth largest nation on earth. Primarily managed by four federal agencies—the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service--American public lands have been central to developing the American economy, state, and identity. The history of these lands intersects with critical components of the American past—namely nature, politics, and economics. From the beginning, the concept of “public” has been the subject of controversy, from visions of homesteaders realizing the ideal of the Jeffersonian republic to western ranchers who use the open range to promote a free enterprise system, to wilderness activists who see these lands as wild places, free from human encumbrance. Environmental historian Adam Sowards synthesizes public lands history from the beginning of the republic to recent controversies. Since public lands are located everywhere, including iconic national parks like Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, Americans at large have a stake in these lands. They are, after all, ours. In a real sense, this book is for those citizens who camp in the national forests, drive through the national parks, or admire distant wilderness landscapes. These readers will gain a greater appreciation for the long and complex history of the range of these places.

Making Mountains

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Author : David Stradling
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2009-11-23

Making Mountains written by David Stradling and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-23 with History categories.

For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.

Wilderness Management

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Author : John C. Hendee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978

Wilderness Management written by John C. Hendee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Nature conservation categories.

Comprehensive synthesis of information organized under six main areas: the setting, legal basis for wilderness, management concepts and direction, important elements for management, wilderness use and its management, and problems and opportunities, all as they relate to the North American, principally U.S., scene.

Shattering The Crystal Face Of God

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Author : M. L. Fischer
language : en
Publisher: Meade Fischer
Release Date : 2000

Shattering The Crystal Face Of God written by M. L. Fischer and has been published by Meade Fischer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Authors, American categories.

Miscellaneous Publication

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978

Miscellaneous Publication written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Agriculture categories.

Keeping Faith With Nature

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Author : Robert B. Keiter
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01

Keeping Faith With Nature written by Robert B. Keiter and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Science categories.

As the twenty-first century dawns, public land policy is entering a new era. This timely book examines the historical, scientific, political, legal, and institutional developments that are changing management priorities and policies—developments that compel us to view the public lands as an integrated ecological entity and a key biodiversity stronghold. Once the background is set, each chapter opens with a specific natural resource controversy, ranging from the Pacific Northwest’s spotted owl imbroglio to the struggle over southern Utah’s Colorado Plateau country. Robert Keiter uses these case histories to analyze the ideas, forces, and institutions that are both fomenting and retarding change. Although Congress has the final say in how the public domain is managed, the public land agencies, federal courts, and western communities are each playing important roles in the transformation to an ecological management regime. At the same time, a newly emergent and homegrown collaborative process movement has given the public land constituencies a greater role in administering these lands. Arguing that we must integrate the new imperatives of ecosystem science with our devolutionary political tendencies, Keiter outlines a coherent new approach to natural resources policy.

Final Environmental Statement Renewable Resource Program 1977 To 2020

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Author : United States. Forest Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976

Final Environmental Statement Renewable Resource Program 1977 To 2020 written by United States. Forest Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Conservation of natural resources categories.

Rpa A Recommended Renewable Resource Program

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Author : United States. Forest Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

Rpa A Recommended Renewable Resource Program written by United States. Forest Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.

Remember Creation

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Author : Scott Hoezee
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 1998

Remember Creation written by Scott Hoezee and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Nature categories.

Why is it that many Christians find a theological-scientific debate about creation's ancient origins far more engaging than a speech about how to live responsibly in the creation today? Are we more fascinated by academic debates that focus our gaze on what happened long ago than by the hands-on discussions that focus our gaze on the world of wonders outside our windows right now? In Remember Creation, Scott Hoezee challenges readers to make today's world more central to the Christian faith by enjoying and preserving God's cosmos as a part of daily discipleship. Solidly grounded in a wealth of Scripture passages, this book reveals God's "ecology of praise," which all Christians should want to explore and preserve. Throughout the book Hoezee also offers suggestions to help congregations, families, and all Christians to take more delight in God's world while working to keep alive the wonders that bring God joy. "Scott Hoezee adds a refreshing new twist to the discussion on the environment: Shouldn't we start by simply enjoying creation and honoring it for what it is? With illustrations both biblical and personal, Hoezee makes a compelling case." - Philip Yancey

Proceedings Rmrs

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998

Proceedings Rmrs written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Forests and forestry categories.