The enduring wilderness [[electronic resource] /] / Doug Scott

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778209503321
• Autore: Scott Doug <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Golden, Colo., : Fulcrum Pub., c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-46806-5; 9786612468063; 1-55591-876-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.78/216/0973
• Soggetti: Wilderness areas - Government policy - United States; Wilderness areas - Law and legislation - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Foreword ix; Preface xi; Introduction 1; People Saving Wilderness ... for People 1; The Impulse to Preserve Wildness 3; The Wilderness Act: A People's Law 4; Challenges Ahead 6; Chapter 1: Wilderness in Our Lives 9; The Wilderness We Have Saved 9; What Preserving Wilderness Requires 13; Chapter 2: Wilderness: From Concept to Action 19; PART 1: THE WILDERNESS IDEA 19; The Need for Wilderness 19; John Muir 21; Wilderness Vanishing 23; National Parks and Wilderness 24; PART 2: THE BEGINNINGS OF A WILDERNESS PRESERVATION POLICY 27; Aldo Leopold 27; The First Wilderness Area and the "L-20" Regulation 29Bob Marshall 30; The Wilderness Society 31; Forest Wilderness or National Parks? 32; "Wilderness" and "Wild Areas"-The "U" Regulations 35; Chapter 3: Wilderness: "There Ought to be a Law" 37; How Permanent? 37; "Not by Law" 39; The Idea of a Comprehensive Wilderness Program 40; Howard Zahniser 40; Imagining a Wilderness Law 41; Building Consensus 43; Echo Park 44; The "Wilderness Bill" 47; The Eight-Year Legislative Odyssey 50; Chapter 4: Putting the New Wilderness Act to Work 57; The Law Changed Everything 57; The Ten-Year Wilderness Review Process 59Stewart Brandborg 61; The "Great Liberating Force" 62; Grassroots Organizing and Citizen Wilderness Proposals 63; Congress Expands Agency Wilderness ; Proposals 65; Eastern Wilderness and the "Purity Theory" 66; The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act 68; National Park Service Resistance to Wilderness Designation 72; Wilderness in National Wildlife Refuges 73; Chapter 5: Expanding the Scope of Wilderness Preservation 75; The "60 Million-Acre Myth" 75; PART 1: NATIONAL FOREST "ROADLESS AREAS" 77; Scapegoat: The First Citizen-Initiated Wilderness Area 79; NEPA, Roadless Areas, and "RARE" 79The Endangered American Wilderness Act and "RARE-II" 81; Release Language and the Post-RARE-II Wilderness Laws 82; PART 2: THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT JOINS THE WILDERNESS PROGRAM 84; The Federal Land Policy and Management Act 85; The Loss of Big Wilderness 86; The National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Rule 88; PART 3: WILDERNESS ON A SCALE TO MATCH ALASKA 89; The Alaska Coalition and "D-2" 90; The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 91; Chapter 6: Wilderness Yet to Save 95; Our Unprotected Wilderness 95; How Much Unprotected Wilderness? 96Giving Roadless Areas a Fair Shake 97; Giving Roadless Areas the Brush-off 99; Anything but Statutory Wilderness 100; The Majority of Americans Are "Not at the Table"as the Fate of Wilderness Is Decided by Agencies 104; Chapter 7: Wilderness Politics 107; The Power of Public Opinion for Wilderness 107; Wilderness Opponents 108; What the Polls Say about Public Attitudes 111; The Realities of Legislative Politics 114; Wilderness and Compromise 117; The Geography of Wilderness Politics 120; Connecting Wilderness with People 122; The Wilderness System of the Future 122
• Sommario/riassunto: A look at how America has preserved more than 100 million acres of diverse wilderness areas in 44 states, now protected in our National Wilderness Preservation System. Discussion of current visions valuing wilderness and its place in our culture.