Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics (Development of Western Resources)

This book illuminates the underlying reasons for the vitriolic battle that pitted public land users in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming against the federal government's Bureau of Land Management during the last decade."A valuable contribution to the literature on federal land policy and natural resource politics. Cawley weaves a wide variety of issues into the text, including battles over wilderness, grazing, mechanized recreation, and various proposed water, energy, and defense projects. Those who wish to learn more about the forces that drive current events in the public land policy arena will find this book essential reading". -- Environmental History Review."This book goes beyond the political cliches and shallow media coverage and presents the real conflicts that determine who controls the social and economic activities of the western states". -- James G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior, 1981-1983."An essential addition to the shelf of the best recent studies of American natural resources policy and of environmental politics". -- Roderick Frazier Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind."Because this booR. McGreggor Cawley is the author of 'Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics (Development of Western Resources)', published 1993 under ISBN 9780700606139 and ISBN 0700606130.