Book description
The Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple use concept, a management philosophy thatā¦
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I suspect most people see much of the Great Basināand Nevada specificallyāas empty, uninteresting, and boring in its geographic features and history. I confess that Iāve been guilty of this. But in Leisl Carr Childersās hands, I learned to recognize how full, fascinating, and insightful this place can be. She takes a key management idea that pervades public lands managementāmultiple useāand demonstrates what it means when the public and their representatives call for one stretch of land to be used for grazing and recreation and wildlife habitat and bombing ranges and mining and, seemingly, new things under the sun almostā¦
From Adam's list on bringing the public into the public lands.
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