Return of the Wild: The Future of Our National Lands

Book Overview

As individuals and as a nation we believe that if we recycle and buy fuel-efficient cars we have done our part to protect the environment. Yet an important element is missing. If we don't conserve the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559639261
• ISBN13: 9781559639262
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Compelling treatise for saving wilderness

This book does a marvelous job, through its various voices, of making the case for protecting our publicly owned domain as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The essayists are some of today's most renown nature and political writers, and the content and flow of the pieces are very readable, very accessible. The general public will derive great benefit from this work, but so, too, will decision-makers and opinion leaders find it useful. In convincing manner, for instance, the supporting research would indicate that the Department of Interior or, more specifically, the Bureau of Land Management, must do much better in carrying out its legal responsibility to protect its public holdings as wilderness. The public is keenly interest in seeing it do so.