With a rare combination of moral passion and intellectual rigor, an expert on the law of the American West examines the issues that have turned the region into a battleground for developers and conservationists, loggers and Earth Firsters, Native Americans activists and sagebrush rebels. "The best handbook I know for anyone who wants to know the history of the West and its probable future".--Wallace Stegner.
Photographer and author Stephen Trimble recommended this as part of the Rocky Mountain Land Library's "A Reading List For the President Elect: A Western Primer for the Next Administration".