Grand Canyon For Sale : Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change / Stephen Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Steve, 1947- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public lands--Environmental aspects--United States.

Public lands.

Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--Environmental conditions.

Grand Canyon (Ariz.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Grand Canyon For Sale 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 his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research, Stephen Nash shows how accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape. In addition, 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, which are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and also would devastate our national parks, forests, and other public lands. To safeguard wildlife and their habitats, it is essential to consolidate protected areas and prioritize natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling, and logging. Grand Canyon For Sale provides an excellent overview of the physical and biological challenges facing public lands. The book also exposes and shows how to combat the political activity that threatens these places in the U.S. today.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Brink

2. Alien Abductions

3. Landscapes in Motion

4. Ghost Tour

5. Tusayans

6. Destitution Park

7. Air and Uncle John

8. Mount Trumbull

9. Cash Cows

10. Sacred Cowboys

11. Treasure Maps

12. Thrill Rides

13. Capture and Corruption

14. The Lost Orphan's Legacy

Notes

Sources and Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Jan 2020)

ISBN:

9780520965249

0520965248

OCLC:

968151760