Skip to content
Catalog
You are not logged in |Login  
Request Add to My Lists Add to Bag MARC Display Return to Browse More Information
     
Limit search to available items
Previous Record Next Record
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Sowards, Adam M., author.

Title Making America's public lands : the contested history of conservation on federal lands / Adam M. Sowards.

Publication Info. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  333.1 SOWARDS    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  333.1097 SOWARDS    Check Shelf
Description xi, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
Series The American ways series
American ways series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Huckleberries around the table -- Gathering -- Forming -- Managing -- Balancing -- Polarizing -- Conclusion: The promise of the public's land.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Public lands -- United States -- History.
Public lands -- United States -- Management -- History.
Land use -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
Land use -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00991504
Public lands. (OCoLC)fst01082573
Public lands -- Management. (OCoLC)fst01082591
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Sowards, Adam M. This land is our land Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022] 9781538125311 (DLC) 2021046341
ISBN 9781442246959 (hardcover)
1442246952 (hardcover)
9781538125311 (electronic book)
-->
Permanent Link
Add a Review

 

Library Links

Encore

Search Tools

Language Settings

English
Español