Title The American West at risk : science, myths, and politics of land abuse and recovery / Howard G. Wilshire, Jane E. Nielson, Richard W. Hazlett

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 619 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Obeying nature -- Once and future trees -- Harvesting the future -- Raiding the range -- Digging to China -- Routes of ruin -- Legacies of war -- Creating the nuclear wasteland -- No habitat but our own -- The last drops -- Garbage of the Golden West -- Tragedy of the playground -- Driving to the end of America's birthright -- Nature's way -- The needs of our posterity -- Appendix 1 : Conserving U.S. public lands : a chronology -- Appendix 2 : Best intentions : federal waste disposal laws -- Appendix 3 : Everything comes from the earth -- Appendix 4 : Biochemical war and you -- Appendix 5 : Destroyer of the worlds -- Appendix 6 : Plutonium fields forever -- Appendix 7 : Bombs for peace -- Appendix 8 : The bunker buster fantasy -- Appendix 9 : U.S. and them : the United States and world oil reserves -- Appendix 10 : "Democratizing" energy : hydrogen fuel cells Summary The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air an Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 444-593) and index Notes Print version record Subject Nature conservation -- West (U.S.) Conservation of natural resources -- West (U.S.) Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- West (U.S.) Land use -- Environmental aspects -- West (U.S.) BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development. NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection. Conservation of natural resources Ecology Land use -- Environmental aspects Nature conservation Nature -- Effect of human beings on SUBJECT West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions Subject West United States Form Electronic book Author Nielson, Jane E., author. Hazlett, Richard W., author. ISBN 9780199722617 0199722617 0195142055 9780195142051

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