Lonesome Landscapes

Stories from National Conservation Lands

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

The hidden stories of the public lands that unite us While the National Park Service is widely known, far fewer Americans are familiar with the Bureau of Land Management’s vast National Conservation Lands—thirty-seven million acres spanning eleven western states and Alaska. Lonesome Landscapes is the first comprehensive history of this system from public domain lands to the designation of national monuments and conservation areas in the twenty-first century.Drawing from archives, interviews, and field reporting, Gulliford reveals the unsung heroes who safeguarded these lands, from pioneering rangers to grassroots advocates in Native American and Hispanic communities. With vivid stories of explorers, cowboys, hermits, and even an alligator named Clem, this book blends scholarship with storytelling. Lonesome Landscapes is both a definitive history and a call to keep America’s wild places in public hands—an essential read for anyone passionate about the West.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-17
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:440
Förlag:University of Utah Press,U.S.
ISBN:9781647692773

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Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

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Andrew Gulliford is professor of history at Fort Lewis College. His books include Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale, Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions, The Woolly West: Colorado’s Hidden History of Sheepscapes, and Bears Ears: Landscape of Refuge and Resistance.

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"A wonderful read. This is the best public lands book since Wallace Stegner wrote Beyond the Hundredth Meridian."—Bruce Babbitt, former United States secretary of the interior “Gulliford does an outstanding job shining a light on the overlooked National Conservation Lands System by tying them into the broader story of the American West, public lands management, and those who have helped shaped all three.”—Michael Childers, Colorado State University "A valuable contribution to the literature of American public land conservation history and policy. Gulliford succeeds admirably in bringing this substantial but greatly overlooked portion of the American landscape into vivid focus."—Curt Meine, Aldo Leopold Foundation and Center for Humans & Nature"With Andrew Gulliford's Lonesome Landscapes in hand, you won't ever be truly lonely while traveling our national conservation lands. A vast cast of characters and stories accompanies you. With sweeping knowledge of the historical literature, extensive interviews, and anecdotes from his own wanderings on public lands, Gulliford traces the fascinating and fraught politics behind the Bureau of Land Management's fragile embrace of conservation. This book will educate, inspire, and empower all who believe in preserving public lands."—Stephen Trimble, author of The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Privatizing Public Lands 2. Saving the Land No One Wanted: Ranchers, Writers, and the Roots of Conservation 3. The BLM’s Coming of Age: From Girl Rangers to National Monuments 4. Creating a Landscape System for BLM’s Conservation Lands 5. Voices from the Land: Indigenous and Hispanic Advocacy 6. Monuments Lost and Found: The Battle Over Boundaries 7. Wilderness, Wild Rivers, Historic Trails, and the Public Lands Mosaic 8. The Character of Canyons and from Scenery to Science 9. From Las Cienegas in Arizona to Alaska’s Birch Creek 10. Lessons from the Lost Coast and a Bears Ears Kiva Endnotes Bibliography Appendices Index