The Complete Guide to Colorado's Wilderness Areas
Title | The Complete Guide to Colorado's Wilderness Areas PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Pearson |
Publisher | Big Earth Publishing |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781565795167 |
Since the passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964, Congress has designated 41 wilderness areas in Colorado, totaling some 3.4 million acres ranging from desert sagebrush to alpine crags. In addition, other undeveloped areas and national parklands have been proposed for wilderness status. In its newly revised second edition, The Complete Guide to Colorado's Wilderness Areas continues to serve as the foremost guide to these magnificent wild places.
Proposed Wilderness Areas
Title | Proposed Wilderness Areas PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Wilderness areas |
ISBN |
A Sand County Almanac
Title | A Sand County Almanac PDF eBook |
Author | Aldo Leopold |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2020-05 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0197500269 |
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.
This Land
Title | This Land PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Ketcham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0735220980 |
"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"--
Proposed Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Areas
Title | Proposed Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Areas PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN |
America's National Park System
Title | America's National Park System PDF eBook |
Author | Lary M. Dilsaver |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 507 |
Release | 2016-02-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1442256842 |
Now in a fully updated edition, this invaluable reference work is a fundamental resource for scholars, students, conservationists, and citizens interested in America's national park system. The extensive collection of documents illustrates the system's creation, development, and management. The documents include laws that established and shaped the system; policy statements on park management; Park Service self-evaluations; and outside studies by a range of scientists, conservation organizations, private groups, and businesses. A new appendix includes summaries of pivotal court cases that have further interpreted the Park Service mission.
Phoenix Wilderness Area, Proposed Wilderness Program
Title | Phoenix Wilderness Area, Proposed Wilderness Program PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | |
ISBN |