Last Refuge: The Environmental Showdown in Yellowstone and the American West

by Jim Robbins

An exploration of the West draws on interviews with ranchers, farmers, miners, environmentalists, archaeologists, and Native Americans

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Environment

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Elsie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Robbins uses the lens of Yellowstone National Park and its environs to look at mining, logging, ranching, water issues, tourism, housing development and its impacts on small towns, and finally the differences between the Old West as most people envision it and a potential New West that will better protect and preserve the best of all of these.

[Steve · Rating 2 out of 5]

An interesting, fast moving account of the evolution of the "new west" in the Yellowstone ecosystem and beyond. Robbins documents the gradual and bitter changes from ranching, mining and logging use of western resources to the current push for more environmental protection.