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Grand Canyon for sale : public lands versus private interests in the era of climate change / Stephen Nash.
LIBRA GE155.A6 N37 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nash, Steve, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public lands--Environmental aspects.
- Public lands.
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Environmental conditions.
- Grand Canyon (Ariz.).
- Public lands--Environmental aspects--United States.
- Ecology.
- Arizona--Grand Canyon.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 288 pages : color maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Saving Grand Canyon is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America's public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as its key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as science research, the book makes plain that accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape. So what's the plan, as the next phase of our political history begins? Consolidating protected areas and prioritizing natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling and logging will be essential. But a growing political movement, well financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these federal lands and return them to state, local and private control. That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and it leads directly to the ruin of our national parks and forests. The author also documents the current federal mismanagement of public land, which often favors private interests over natural systems and endangered species"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Brink
- Alien abductions
- Landscape in motion
- Ghost tour
- Tusayans
- Destitution park
- Air and Uncle John
- Mount Trumbull
- Cash cows
- Sacred cowboys
- Treasure maps
- Thrill rides
- Capture and corruption
- The lost orphan's legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nash, Steve, 1947- Grand Canyon for sale.
- ISBN:
- 9780520291478
- 0520291476
- OCLC:
- 967919541
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