Who controls public lands? : mining, forestry, and grazing policies, 1870-1990 / Christopher McGrory Klyza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klyza, Christopher McGrory, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public lands--Government policy--United States--History.

Public lands.

Mineral lands--Government policy--United States--History.

Mineral lands.

Forest policy--United States--History.

Forest policy.

Range policy--United States--History.

Range policy.

Public lands--United States--Management--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 211 p. )

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1996]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time. According to Klyza, understanding the different philosophies that gave rise to each policy regime is crucial to reforming public-lands policy in the future.Klyza begins by delineating how prevailing policy philosophies over the course of the last century have shaped each of the three land-use patterns he discusses. In mining, the model was economic liberalism, which mandated privatization of public lands; in forestry, it was technocratic utilitarianism, which called for government ownership and management of land; and in grazing, it was interest-group liberalism, in which private interests determined government policy. Each of these philosophies held sway in the years during which policy for that particular resource was formed, says Klyza, and continues to animate it even today.

Contents:

1. Public-Lands Puzzles

2. The Ideas: Competing Conceptions of the Public Interest

3. Mining and the Land: Minerals as the Ultimate Resource

4. Managing the Nation's Forests: The Market, Science, or Morality?

5. Managing the Nation's Grazing Lands: Beef, Wool, Grass, and Politics

6. Explaining the Past, Speculating about the Future.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-203) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890878380

9780807862537

0807862533

OCLC:

1063925432