Our co-sponsor Foreword As published in Sisk, T.D., editor.
Extinction is nothing new in North America.
Nor is fire or flooding, grazing, logging, or irrigation farming. What has changed over the past century is the unprecedented scale and frequency of these disturbances as human changes in land use accelerate across the landscape. That acceleration has been difficult to keep track of, let alone make sense of. But this publication does just that, and it does so just in time. For land use and open-space planning are suddenly hot political topics, and for good reason.