Making America's Public Lands: The Contested History of Conservation on Federal Lands
威尼斯人娱乐场 Museum
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In the United States, the federal government owns more than a quarter of the nation鈥檚 landscape鈥攏early 640 million acres, or more than a million square miles, which, if consolidated, would make it the 10th largest nation on earth. Primarily managed by four federal agencies鈥攖he Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service鈥擜merican 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鈥攏amely nature, politics, and economics. From the beginning, the concept of 鈥減ublic鈥� 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.
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