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- Condition
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- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Penguin Publishing Group
- ISBN
- 9780735220980
- Book Title
- This Land : How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Nature, Travel, Law, Science, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Conservation & Protection, United States / West / General, Corruption & Misconduct, Land Use, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Endangered Species
- Item Weight
- 22.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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"A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time." -- Outside A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea for the protection of these last wild places The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled, denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0735220980
ISBN-13
9780735220980
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038741869
Product Key Features
Book Title
This Land : How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Conservation & Protection, United States / West / General, Corruption & Misconduct, Land Use, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Endangered Species
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Travel, Law, Science, History, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Advance praise for This Land : "As Christopher Ketcham says so eloquently in these pages, the vast public lands are perhaps America's greatest legacy, a landscape of the scale necessary to help preserve the diversity of life on a hot planet in a tough century. That's why we need to pay such attention to the stories he tells of the threats they face." --Bill McKibben, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, Advance praise for This Land : "As Christopher Ketcham says so eloquently in these pages, the vast public lands are perhaps America's greatest legacy, a landscape of the scale necessary to help preserve the diversity of life on a hot planet in a tough century. That's why we need to pay such attention to the stories he tells of the threats they face." --Bill McKibben, author Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? " This Land is the book we've all been waiting for. It is simultaneously profound and incisive, breathtaking and heartbreaking, inspiring and sobering. Most of all it is imbued with a love of the land: the land we all love, the land we need, the land that needs us now more than ever. This book is desperately and wildly important." - Derrick Jensen, author of The Myth of Human Supremacy
Lccn
2019-002212
Dewey Decimal
333.730978
Lc Classification Number
Ge155.W47k47 2019
Copyright Date
2019
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