Rebekah’s Reviews > The Governance of Western Public Lands: Mapping Its Present and Future > Status Update

'people do not wish to see uncertainty, conflicting opinions, long debate, competing interests, confusion, bargaining, and compromised, imperfect solutions. They want government to do its job quietly and efficiently, sans conflict and sans fuss. In short, we submit, they often seek a patently unrealistic form of democracy'

'Is this NPS policy an "excessive entanglement" of church and state? Or is it merely an "accommodation" of religion, allowing for its free exercise?'

Thanks to the likes of John Muir, they had a fundamental misunderstanding of what "natural conditions" were...

'Note that the goal here is not to communicate with each other, but with the public and political decision makers. This tactic has a spiraling effect in that one group's communicative strategy is based on the previous or predicted moves of the other group. This sort of dysfunctional communicative behavior not only deepens conflict but makes it difficult to stop once it starts.'