Download or read book Public Lands and Political Meaning written by Karen R. Merrill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing the increasingly contested interpretations of the meaning of public land administration, this book traces the history of the political dynamics between ranchers and federal land agencies.
Download or read book The Political History of the Public Lands from 1840 to 1862 written by George Malcolm Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political History of the Public Lands from 1840 to 1862 written by George Malcolm Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Common Ground written by John D. Leshy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.
Download or read book The Political History of the Public Lands written by George M. Stephenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Political History of the Public Lands: From 1840 to 1862; From Pre-Emption to Homestead The research was begun in a seminar at Harvard Univer sity in 1911, later expanding into a doctoral dissertation. Those who have profited by the stimulating scholarship, illuminating criticism, and the never-failing encouragement and courtesy of Professor Frederick J. Turner, will under stand the author's deep Obligation to him. He has blazed the way for those who seek to understand the significance of the West in American History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Political History of the Public Lands from 1840 To 1862 written by George M. (George Malcolm) Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book The Political History of the Public Lands from 1840 To 1862 written by George M. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Common Ground written by John D. Leshy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land and manage it primarily for recreation, education and conservation. “A much-needed chronicle of how the American people decided––wisely and democratically––that nearly a third of the nation’s land surface should remain in our collective ownership and be managed for our common good.”—Dayton Duncan, author of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea America’s public lands include more than 600 million acres of forests, plains, mountains, wetlands, deserts, and shorelines. In this book, John Leshy, a leading expert in public lands policy, discusses the key political decisions that led to this, beginning at the very founding of the nation. He traces the emergence of a bipartisan political consensus in favor of the national government holding these vast land areas primarily for recreation, education, and conservation of biodiversity and cultural resources. That consensus remains strong and continues to shape American identity. Such a success story of the political system is a bright spot in an era of cynicism about government. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about public lands, and it is particularly timely as the world grapples with the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Download or read book Who is Minding the Federal Estate written by Holly Lippke Fretwell and published by Political Economic Forum. This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Is Minding the Federal Estate? takes the reader on a tour of America's public lands from their history to their current state. Looking from the inside-out and the outside-in, this book helps those interested in conservation and environmental protection gain an understanding of the logic behind public land management. The author invites the reader to be daring and innovative, opening a box of new tools for potential reform that would advance public land stewardship.
Download or read book The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands written by Erika Allen Wolters and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 environmentalists. Local, state, and government policies and approaches change according to the vagaries of scientific knowledge, the American and global economies, and political administrations. Occasionally, debates over public land usage erupt into major incidents, as with the armed occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. While a number of scholars work on the politics and policy of public land management, there has been no central book on the topic since the publication of Charles Davis's Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics (Westview, 2001). In The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands, Erika Allen Wolters and Brent Steel have assembled a stellar cast of scholars to consider long-standing issues and topics such as endangered species, land use, and water management while addressing more recent challenges to western public lands like renewable energy siting, fracking, Native American sovereignty, and land use rebellions. Chapters also address the impact of climate change on policy dimensions and scope. The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands is co-published with Oregon State University Open Educational Resources, who will release an open access edition alongside this print edition"--
Download or read book Making America s Public Lands written by Adam M. Sowards and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout American history, “public lands” have been the subject of controversy, from homesteaders settling the American west to ranchers who use the open range to promote free enterprise, to wilderness activists who see these lands as wild places. This book shows how these controversies intersect with critical issues of American history.
Download or read book America s Public Lands written by Randall K. Wilson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How it is 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? Now in a fully revised and updated edition covering the first years of the Trump administration, Randall Wilson considers this intriguing question, tracing 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 off land and the subsequent emergence of a national conservation ideal. Arguing that we cannot fully understand one type of public land without understanding its relation to the rest of the system, he provides in-depth accounts of the different types of public lands. With chapters on national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Management lands, and wilderness areas, Wilson examines key turning points and major policy debates for each land type, including recent Trump Administration efforts to roll back environmental protections. He considers debates ranging from national monument designations and bison management to gas and oil drilling, wildfire policy, the bark beetle epidemic, and the future of roadless and wilderness conservation areas. His comprehensive overview offers a chance to rethink our relationship with America’s public lands, including what it says about the way we relate to, and value, nature in the United States.
Download or read book The Political and Sectional Influence of the Public Lands 1828 1842 written by Raynor Greenleaf Wellington and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Public Land Policies written by Benjamin Horace Hibbard and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Lands and Political Meaning written by Karen R. Merrill and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the American West is a history of struggles over land, and none has inspired so much passion and misunderstanding as the conflict between ranchers and the federal government over public grazing lands. Drawing upon neglected sources from organized ranchers, this is the first book to provide a historically based explanation for why the relationship between ranchers and the federal government became so embattled long before modern environmentalists became involved in the issue. Reconstructing the increasingly contested interpretations of the meaning of public land administration, Public Lands and Political Meaning traces the history of the political dynamics between ranchers and federal land agencies, giving us a new look at the relations of power that made the modern West. Although a majority of organized ranchers supported government control of the range at the turn of the century, by midcentury these same organizations often used a virulently antifederal discourse that fueled many a political fight in Washington and that still runs deep in American politics today. In analyzing this shift, Merrill shows how profoundly people's ideas about property wove their way into the political language of the debates surrounding public range policy. As she unravels the meaning of this language, Merrill demonstrates that different ideas about property played a crucial role in perpetuating antagonism on both sides of the fence. In addition to illuminating the origins of the "sagebrush rebellions" in the American West, this book also persuasively argues that political historians must pay more attention to public land management issues as a way of understanding tensions in American state-building.
Download or read book History of Public Land Law Development written by Paul Wallace Gates and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political and Sectional Influence of the Public Lands 1828 1842 Classic Reprint written by Raynor G. Wellington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Political and Sectional Influence of the Public Lands, 1828 1842 The revenue attitude toward the public domain continued in the older sections, but its force was weakened by the growth of the West. The decided change in favor of the actual settler was shown) in 1820 by the passage of a general relief act, by the reduction in price from two dollars to one dollar and a quarter an acre, and by the reduction of the minimum unit from one hundred and sixty acres to eighty acres. The Western Senators made a resolute effort to gain at this time, what was a great desire of the pioneers, a gen eral preemption law, which would give every squatter the oppor tunity to buy one hundred and sixty acres surrounding his cabin and improvements up to two weeks before the beginning Of land sales in each district.3 The administration of the land system, however, still adhered too strongly to the revenue idea to per mit the sale of the choicest land at the minimum price to the law breaking pioneers. 4 Special laws dealing with individual cases and areas continued in increased numbers until 1830, when the public attitude toward the actual settler had so far changed as to allow the enactment of a general law, but even this was limited in term and retrospective in character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
