Give and Take: How the Clinton Administration's Public Lands Offensive Transformed the American West

Give and Take: How the Clinton Administration's Public Lands Offensive Transformed the American West

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Book Description
Learn how those impacted by new national monuments are redefining land protection in the West.

*Uses in-depth new reporting and cutting edge commentary to bring to life one of the West's most pressing issues: the protection of its environment and natural heritage amidst massive social and economic change
*Features thought-provoking essays by such leading writers and social commnetators as Ed Marston, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm, Charles Wilkinson, Laird Noh, William Debuys, Rochelle Oxarango, Mark Dowie, and Perry Swisher
*The drama resulting from President Clinton's bold naming of seven new National monuments is vividly brought to life utilizing coverage from the pages of High Country News, the award-winning environmental news service

Reading more like drama than history, through the analogy created by Clinton's naming of the Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah, Give and Take captures the complexity of the issues surrounding protection of what appears to be the limitless frontier amidst natural and manmade limitations.

Give and Take combines frontline reporting by journalists for High Country News, with commentary by some of the West's leading writers. It vividly brings to life a diverse populace, contradictory aspirations and forces, spectacular and fragile natural landscapes, and evolving economic forces that are reshaping the myths regarding the West's lands and culture.

About the Author
Paul Larmer is the fourth executive director and publisher in High Country News' three decades of existence, having joined the paper in 1984. He has a Master's degree in Natural Resource Policy from the University of Michigan and was on the staff of the national Sierra Club.

Give and Take: How the Clinton Administration's Public Lands Offensive Transformed the American West,Paul Larmer,High Country News,0974448508,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Environmental Studies,Environmental aspects,Government - U.S. Government,Government purchasing of real property,Land use, Rural,Management,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Public Policy - Environmental Policy,Public lands,West (U.S.)

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