Randall K. Wilson is professor of environmental studies at Gettysburg College. The first edition of America’s Public Lands won the J. B. Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers.

This valuable new edition of Randall Wilson’s prize-winning book on public lands offers timely updates on Obama and Trump administration legislation and important new material on wild and scenic rivers and trails. Wilson also serves up plenty of fresh examples that reflect the author’s ongoing passion for America’s greatest gift to itself. If you love the nation’s public lands, you will love this book!

• Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Why Public Lands? Rethinking Old Stories Setting the Stage Part I: ORIGINS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN1 Building the National Commons Colonial Antecedents The National Commons ExpandsThe Federal Indian Reserved LandsSumming Up 2 Disposing of the Public Domain: From Commons toCommodity Privatizing the Commons: Two Visions The Homestead Acts, Land Grants, and Railroads Logging, Ranching, and MiningFederal Indian Reserved Lands RevisitedThe First Public Land Policy?3 A Public Land System Emerges Tragedy of the National CommonsFrom Crisis to Conservation Building the Public Land SystemPart II: AMERICA’S PUBLIC LAND SYSTEM4 National Parks The Story of Yellowstone John Muir and YosemiteTeddy Roosevelt and the Antiquities ActThe Fight for Hetch Hetchy Stephen Mather and the National Park Service The Jackson Hole Conflict and Postwar Expansion Stewart Udall, Jimmy Carter, and Alaska From Deregulation to Collaboration . . . and Back Again Parks in the Twenty-First CenturyThe 2016 Park Service Centennial and Beyond Cases 5 National Forests The First Forest Reserves The 1897 Forest Organic Act Gifford Pinchot and the USDA Forest Service A Burning Issue: Fire Policy The Idea of Multiple UseClear-Cutting, NFMA, and Below-Cost Timber SalesConflict Soars to New Heights: The Northern Spotted OwlThe Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003The Twenty-First Century and the Triple Threat Coming Full CircleCases6 National Wildlife RefugesWho Owns Wildlife? State Rights and the Separation of Land and Life Sport Hunting and Conservation, or When a Refuge Is Not a Refuge The First (Actual) National Wildlife RefugeGoing International to Save the National CommonsBuilding a Federal Wildlife Agency But What Are Refuges For? Turning the Corner to Conservation The 2000s: From Deregulation to Historic Expansion Refuges under Siege Cases 7 Bureau of Land Management LandsRethinking the Unwanted Lands: John Wesley PowellTragedies of the (Rangeland) Commons The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934Creating the BLM The BLM Organic Act1980s and 1990s: From Sagebrush Rebellion to Rangeland Reform Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument The National Landscape Conservation System The New Century: To Drill or Not to Drill? What Will the BLM Stand For? Cases 8 National Wilderness Preservation System Origins: The Wilderness Idea Aldo Leopold and the First Wilderness Bob Marshall and the Wilderness Society Howard Zahniser and the Wilderness Act of 1964The Wilderness Act in PracticeWilderness and the National Forests Expanding the Wilderness System The Next Fifty YearsCases9 National Wild and Scenic Rivers and TrailsWild and Scenic RiversCase: The Klamath RiverNational Scenic and Historic Trails Case: The North Country Trail 10 Parting ThoughtsMapping Conceptual Continuities Diversity within the Public Land System The Promise of Collaborative Conservation Appendix A: Major U.S. Public Land Laws and Other Key Turning PointsAppendix B: Units within the National Park SystemNotesBibliographyIndex About the Author

Randall K. Wilson is professor of environmental studies at Gettysburg College. The first edition of America’s Public Lands won the J. B. Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers.

This valuable new edition of Randall Wilson’s prize-winning book on public lands offers timely updates on Obama and Trump administration legislation and important new material on wild and scenic rivers and trails. Wilson also serves up plenty of fresh examples that reflect the author’s ongoing passion for America’s greatest gift to itself. If you love the nation’s public lands, you will love this book!

• Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Why Public Lands? Rethinking Old Stories Setting the Stage Part I: ORIGINS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN1 Building the National Commons Colonial Antecedents The National Commons ExpandsThe Federal Indian Reserved LandsSumming Up 2 Disposing of the Public Domain: From Commons toCommodity Privatizing the Commons: Two Visions The Homestead Acts, Land Grants, and Railroads Logging, Ranching, and MiningFederal Indian Reserved Lands RevisitedThe First Public Land Policy?3 A Public Land System Emerges Tragedy of the National CommonsFrom Crisis to Conservation Building the Public Land SystemPart II: AMERICA’S PUBLIC LAND SYSTEM4 National Parks The Story of Yellowstone John Muir and YosemiteTeddy Roosevelt and the Antiquities ActThe Fight for Hetch Hetchy Stephen Mather and the National Park Service The Jackson Hole Conflict and Postwar Expansion Stewart Udall, Jimmy Carter, and Alaska From Deregulation to Collaboration . . . and Back Again Parks in the Twenty-First CenturyThe 2016 Park Service Centennial and Beyond Cases 5 National Forests The First Forest Reserves The 1897 Forest Organic Act Gifford Pinchot and the USDA Forest Service A Burning Issue: Fire Policy The Idea of Multiple UseClear-Cutting, NFMA, and Below-Cost Timber SalesConflict Soars to New Heights: The Northern Spotted OwlThe Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003The Twenty-First Century and the Triple Threat Coming Full CircleCases6 National Wildlife RefugesWho Owns Wildlife? State Rights and the Separation of Land and Life Sport Hunting and Conservation, or When a Refuge Is Not a Refuge The First (Actual) National Wildlife RefugeGoing International to Save the National CommonsBuilding a Federal Wildlife Agency But What Are Refuges For? Turning the Corner to Conservation The 2000s: From Deregulation to Historic Expansion Refuges under Siege Cases 7 Bureau of Land Management LandsRethinking the Unwanted Lands: John Wesley PowellTragedies of the (Rangeland) Commons The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934Creating the BLM The BLM Organic Act1980s and 1990s: From Sagebrush Rebellion to Rangeland Reform Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument The National Landscape Conservation System The New Century: To Drill or Not to Drill? What Will the BLM Stand For? Cases 8 National Wilderness Preservation System Origins: The Wilderness Idea Aldo Leopold and the First Wilderness Bob Marshall and the Wilderness Society Howard Zahniser and the Wilderness Act of 1964The Wilderness Act in PracticeWilderness and the National Forests Expanding the Wilderness System The Next Fifty YearsCases9 National Wild and Scenic Rivers and TrailsWild and Scenic RiversCase: The Klamath RiverNational Scenic and Historic Trails Case: The North Country Trail 10 Parting ThoughtsMapping Conceptual Continuities Diversity within the Public Land System The Promise of Collaborative Conservation Appendix A: Major U.S. Public Land Laws and Other Key Turning PointsAppendix B: Units within the National Park SystemNotesBibliographyIndex About the Author

Randall K. Wilson is professor of environmental studies at Gettysburg College. The first edition of America’s Public Lands won the J. B. Jackson Prize from the American Association of Geographers.

This valuable new edition of Randall Wilson’s prize-winning book on public lands offers timely updates on Obama and Trump administration legislation and important new material on wild and scenic rivers and trails. Wilson also serves up plenty of fresh examples that reflect the author’s ongoing passion for America’s greatest gift to itself. If you love the nation’s public lands, you will love this book!

• Preface to the Second Edition Introduction: Why Public Lands? Rethinking Old Stories Setting the Stage Part I: ORIGINS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN1 Building the National Commons Colonial Antecedents The National Commons ExpandsThe Federal Indian Reserved LandsSumming Up 2 Disposing of the Public Domain: From Commons toCommodity Privatizing the Commons: Two Visions The Homestead Acts, Land Grants, and Railroads Logging, Ranching, and MiningFederal Indian Reserved Lands RevisitedThe First Public Land Policy?3 A Public Land System Emerges Tragedy of the National CommonsFrom Crisis to Conservation Building the Public Land SystemPart II: AMERICA’S PUBLIC LAND SYSTEM4 National Parks The Story of Yellowstone John Muir and YosemiteTeddy Roosevelt and the Antiquities ActThe Fight for Hetch Hetchy Stephen Mather and the National Park Service The Jackson Hole Conflict and Postwar Expansion Stewart Udall, Jimmy Carter, and Alaska From Deregulation to Collaboration . . . and Back Again Parks in the Twenty-First CenturyThe 2016 Park Service Centennial and Beyond Cases 5 National Forests The First Forest Reserves The 1897 Forest Organic Act Gifford Pinchot and the USDA Forest Service A Burning Issue: Fire Policy The Idea of Multiple UseClear-Cutting, NFMA, and Below-Cost Timber SalesConflict Soars to New Heights: The Northern Spotted OwlThe Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003The Twenty-First Century and the Triple Threat Coming Full CircleCases6 National Wildlife RefugesWho Owns Wildlife? State Rights and the Separation of Land and Life Sport Hunting and Conservation, or When a Refuge Is Not a Refuge The First (Actual) National Wildlife RefugeGoing International to Save the National CommonsBuilding a Federal Wildlife Agency But What Are Refuges For? Turning the Corner to Conservation The 2000s: From Deregulation to Historic Expansion Refuges under Siege Cases 7 Bureau of Land Management LandsRethinking the Unwanted Lands: John Wesley PowellTragedies of the (Rangeland) Commons The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934Creating the BLM The BLM Organic Act1980s and 1990s: From Sagebrush Rebellion to Rangeland Reform Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument The National Landscape Conservation System The New Century: To Drill or Not to Drill? What Will the BLM Stand For? Cases 8 National Wilderness Preservation System Origins: The Wilderness Idea Aldo Leopold and the First Wilderness Bob Marshall and the Wilderness Society Howard Zahniser and the Wilderness Act of 1964The Wilderness Act in PracticeWilderness and the National Forests Expanding the Wilderness System The Next Fifty YearsCases9 National Wild and Scenic Rivers and TrailsWild and Scenic RiversCase: The Klamath RiverNational Scenic and Historic Trails Case: The North Country Trail 10 Parting ThoughtsMapping Conceptual Continuities Diversity within the Public Land System The Promise of Collaborative Conservation Appendix A: Major U.S. Public Land Laws and Other Key Turning PointsAppendix B: Units within the National Park SystemNotesBibliographyIndex About the Author