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This Land - How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West (Paperback)
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This Land - How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West (Paperback)
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"A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of
our time." -Outside A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging
over the fate of the public lands in the American West--and a plea
for the protection of these last wild places The public lands of
the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of
grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an
American commons, and it is under assault as never before.
Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence
of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this
region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a
journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is
killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the
environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands
livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal
land management agencies, who have been compromised by the
profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to
regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt
politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's
failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species
Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly
bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior
of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of
animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way,
Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former
government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists
and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain
for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking
journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot
in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our
national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of
ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled,
denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws
already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native
species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered
Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where
there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.
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