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The subject of historic struggle and contemporary dispute, public lands in the United States are treasured spaces. In Public Lands, Public Debates, environmental historian Char Miller explores the history of conservation thinking and the development of a government agency with stewardship at its mission.

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

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. p. vi
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  1. Acknowledgements
  2. p. vii
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  1. Introduction: In the Woods
  2. pp. 1-14
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  1. Part I: Creative Forces
  2. p. 15
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  1. Le Coup D'Oeil Forestier: Shifting Views of Federal Forestry in America, 1870-1945
  2. pp. 16-36
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  1. Rough Terrain: Forest Management and Its Discontents
  2. pp. 37-47
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  1. A Transformative Place: Grey Towers and the Evolution of American Conservationism
  2. pp. 48-56
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  1. Thinking Like a Conservationist
  2. pp. 57-64
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  1. Part II: Policy Schemes
  2. p. 65
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  1. Landmark Decision: The Antiquities Act, Big-Stick Conservation, and the Modern State
  2. pp. 66-78
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  1. Rewilding the East: The Weeks Act and the Expansion of Federal Forestry
  2. pp. 79-84
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  1. Riding Herd on the Public Range
  2. pp. 85-89
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  1. Place Making
  2. pp. 90-94
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  1. Fire Fight
  2. pp. 95-99
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  1. Reefer Madness
  2. pp. 100-103
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  1. Landscape Mosaic: Managing Fragmented Forests
  2. pp. 104-115
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  1. The Once and Future Forest Service
  2. pp. 116-132
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  1. Part III: Internal Tensions
  2. p. 133
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  1. Restoration Surgery
  2. pp. 134-137
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  1. Liquid Assets
  2. pp. 138-140
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  1. Sell Off
  2. pp. 141-146
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  1. Peace Out
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  1. Identity Crisis
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  1. Interior Dialogue
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  1. The New Face of the Agency
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  1. Part IV: Global Green
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  1. Sinchi Sacha
  2. pp. 166-169
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  1. A Changing Climate
  2. pp. 170-174
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  1. Forestry Done Right
  2. pp. 174-179
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  1. Sources
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  1. Index
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