In this Book
- Public Lands, Public Debates: A Century of Controversy
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Oregon State University Press
Owned in common, our national forests, monuments, parks, and preserves are funded through federal tax receipts, making these public lands national in scope and significance. Their controversial histories demonstrate their vulnerability to shifting tides of public opinion, alterations in fiscal support, and overlapping authorities for their management—including federal, state, and local mandates, as well as critical tribal prerogatives and military claims.
Miller takes the Forest Service as a gauge of the broader debates in which Americans have engaged since the late nineteenth century. In nineteen essays,he examines critical moments of public and private negotiation to help explain the particular, and occasionally peculiar, tensions that have shaped the administration of public lands in the United States.
“Watching democracy at work can be bewildering, even frustrating, but the only way individuals and organizations can sift through the often messy business of public deliberation is to deliberate...”—Char Miller, from the introduction
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- p. vi
- Acknowledgements
- p. vii
- Introduction: In the Woods
- pp. 1-14
- Thinking Like a Conservationist
- pp. 57-64
- Riding Herd on the Public Range
- pp. 85-89
- Place Making
- pp. 90-94
- Fire Fight
- pp. 95-99
- Reefer Madness
- pp. 100-103
- The Once and Future Forest Service
- pp. 116-132
- Restoration Surgery
- pp. 134-137
- Liquid Assets
- pp. 138-140
- Identity Crisis
- pp. 151-155
- Interior Dialogue
- pp. 156-160
- The New Face of the Agency
- pp. 161-164
- Part IV: Global Green
- p. 165
- Sinchi Sacha
- pp. 166-169
- A Changing Climate
- pp. 170-174
- Forestry Done Right
- pp. 174-179