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Title: Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West by Charles F. Wilkinson ISBN: 1-55963-150-3 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Should be required reading in high school
Comment: Great and informative book. Puts a lot of the problems now faced in the west into their context. Covers a lot of land history in the west not generally covered in school, but definately not a dry read!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent and thought provoking
Comment: An excellent rendition of how western law had transformend the American West into a land for humans, filled with dam after dam. Wild salmon have no where to go. Laws seem to be more powerful than Nature!
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, thought-provoking
Comment: A very scholarly, but accessible, history of the development of the West and the social/political/economic structures that shaped land, water and resource rights there. In particular, Wilkinson is addressing the notorious Hardrock Mining Act of 1872 (still in effect), the distribution of land and grazing rights, the fisheries of the Pacific Northwest, and the timber industry. His analysis of the Lords of Yesterday - his term for the antiquated statutes that govern those industries - is very convincing. The book's only weakness is that this is a 1992 text (presumably researched in the decade previous) that doesn't reflect changes in the laws and political pressures over the past decade. It would benefit from a new edition.
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Title: Fire on the Plateau: Conflict and Endurance in the American Southwest by Charles Wilkinson ISBN: 1559636475 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Compass and Gyroscope: Integrating Science and Politics for the Environment by Kai N. Lee ISBN: 1559631988 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford to Lose (SCIENCE MASTERS SERIES) by Stephen H. Schneider ISBN: 0465072798 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: River Song by Craig Lesley ISBN: 0312244916 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands by Ann Vileisis ISBN: 1559633158 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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