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Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands : America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984 Environmental History Series ; No. 10
author
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Short, C. Brant.
publisher
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Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0890964114
print isbn13
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9780890964118
ebook isbn13
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9780585174808
language
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English
subject
Public lands--United States, Conservation of natural resources--Government policy--United States, Environmental policy--United States, United States.--Dept. of the Interior, Watt, James G.,--1938- , Reagan, Ronald.
publication date
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1989
lcc
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HD216.S58 1989eb
ddc
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333.1/0973
subject
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Public lands--United States, Conservation of natural resources--Government policy--United States, Environmental policy--United States, United States.--Dept. of the Interior, Watt, James G.,--1938- , Reagan, Ronald.
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Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands
Number 10
The Environmental History Series
Martin V. Melosi, General Editor
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Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands
America's Conservation Debate, 19791984
C. Brant Short
COLLEGE STATION TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Copyright 1989 by C. Brant Short All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First edition
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American Na tional Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
TM
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Short, C. Brant (Calvin Brant), 1955 Ronald Reagan and the public lands : America's conservation debate, 19791984 / C. Brant Short. 1st ed. p. cm. (The Environmental history series ; no. 10) Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-89096-411-4 (alk. paper) 1. United StatesPublic lands. 2. Conservation of natural resourcesGovernment policyUnited States. 3. Environmental policyUnited States. 4. United States. Dept. of the Interior. 5. Watt, James G. 1938- . 6. Reagan, Ronald. I. Title. II. Series. HD216.S58 1989 333.10973dc19 88-32639 CIP
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For my wife, Dayle
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Contents
Preface
page ix
1. American's Conservation Consensus: Origins of the Public Lands Debate
3
2. "Western Men at Lexington Bridge": The Rise of the Sagebrush Rebellion
10
3. "Save Our Public Lands": The Environmental Response to the Sagebrush Rebellion
26
4. The Presidency and the Public Lands: Conservation and the 1980 Presidential Campaign
40
5. "Paralysis by Analysis": The Conservation Rhetoric of James Watt
55
6. Selling the Public Lands: Lock, Stock, and Barrel
81
7. Rebuilding the Consensus: Environmental Rhetoric, 198184
100
8. The New Right versus the New Deal: Competing Visions of Progress in the Conservation Debate
128
Notes
137
Bibliography
165
Index
175
Page ix
Preface
America's frontier experience may be the nation's most enduring collective myth. Raised in a popular culture filled with cowboys, cattle drives, and wagon trains, Americans recall with pride the nation's westward expansion. Few would question Frederick Jackson Turner's hypothesis that free land beckoning in the West fostered the development of American democracy. "This proposition does not sound novel now," observes Henry Nash Smith, "because it has been worked into the very fabric of our history."1 In the final decades of the twentieth century, a vast western wilderness continues to stir passions. With millions of acres of public domain under federal management, Americans face a great dilemma. Should the public lands continue to serve as an economic Eden, in the tradition of a "Manifest Destiny," with its oil, timber, and mineral treasures captured for human consumption? Or should Americans, acknowledging an age of limits, preserve the shrinking wilderness for its inherent values? This dilemma, which estranged John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt during the first stages of the conservation movement, continues to call for resolution.
Articulate advocates on both sides of the issue debate the merits of preservation versus development. Wendell Berry, for example, believes that some tracts of wilderness must be preserved because the land provides a necessary cultural model, a standard of civilization for future generations. "Only if we know how the land was," writes Berry, "can we tell how it is. Records, figures, statistics will not suffice; to know, in the true sense, is to see." However, he concedes that for practical and humane reasons most of the land in the United States will be developed and used for human purposes. Both a farmer and a philosopher, Berry lucidly identifies the central dilemma of the public lands: Americans need to develop their natural resources for economic well-being; Americans need to retain their wilderness intact
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