Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780813337685
Subjects: Central government policies; Management of land & natural resources; West (U.S); Politics / Current Events; Government - U.S. Government; Science; Science/Mathematics; USA; Public Policy - General; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature-Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Political Science / Public Policy; Political Science-Government - U.S. Government; Environmental Studies; Political Theory; Environmental policy; West (U.S.); Environmental Science; Government policy; Land use; Public lands
First sentence: A look backward at U.S. public lands policy from the latter part of the nineteenth century until the mid-1960s reveals a clear pattern of resource development priorities from Congress and federal land use management agencies.