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Open Spaces, Open Rebellions - The War over America's Public Lands (Paperback)
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Open Spaces, Open Rebellions - The War over America's Public Lands (Paperback)
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In the spring of 2014, rancher Cliven Bundy and his armed
supporters engaged in a standoff with Bureau of Land Management
agents, and once again, the federal management of public lands was
in the national spotlight. The conflict arose because Bundy had not
paid required grazing fees and a federal judge ordered the
confiscation of his cattle. The ensuing media coverage highlighted
information that may have surprised those outside the rural West:
the federal government manages 640 million acres of public land,
with over 90 percent of it in the West. In Open Spaces, Open
Rebellions, Michael J. Makley offers a succinct and compelling
history of the federal government's management of public lands. As
Makley reveals, beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing
to the present day, debates over how best to balance the use of
these lands by the general public, fee-paying ranchers, and
resource developers have always been complex and contentious.
Indeed, these debates have often been met with demands for
privatization or state control, best exemplified by the Sagebrush
Rebellion of the 1980s and the 2016 occupation of Oregon's Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge.
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