Land Management


The One-Straw Revolution
The Wolf
Sagebrush Empire: How a Remote Utah County Became the Battlefront of American Public Lands
Greenwood
The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America's Birds
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Up In Arms: How The Bundy Family Hijacked Federal Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America's Patriot Militia Movement
Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming
The Antidote
The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation
National Parks and the Supreme Court: Groundbreaking Legal Battles (America's National Parks)
This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments
Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River
Hope On The Border
Roots and Resilience: California Ranchers in Their Own Words
Richard Oram
Our distant ancestors had the capacity to make profound changes to the environment, to shape it such that it would better deliver those things upon which their subsistence depended. They could overexploit an exhaust, and persecute perceived competitors to extinction, but they could also recognise depletion and take steps to regulate overuse and bad practice. Above all, however, they developed a fundamental social resilience in the face of adversity and crisis, and it is from that characteristic ...more
Richard Oram, A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400 - 1400

Frank Fraser Darling
The bald unpalatable fact is emphasized that the Highlands and Islands are largely a devastated terrain, and that any policy which ignores this fact cannot hope to achieve rehabilitation.
Frank Fraser Darling, West Highland Survey: An Essay in Human Ecology

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