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title	:	The Eagle Bird : Mapping a New West
author	:	Wilkinson, Charles F.
publisher	:	Johnson Books
isbn10 | asin	:	1555662501
print isbn13	:	9781555662509
ebook isbn13	:	9780585196626
language	:	English
subject	Conservation of natural resources--West (U.S.) , Conservation of natural resources--Government policy--West (U.S.) , Environmental policy--West (U.S.)
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	S932.W37W55 1999eb
ddc	:	333.95/16/0978
subject	:	Conservation of natural resources--West (U.S.) , Conservation of natural resources--Government policy--West (U.S.) , Environmental policy--West (U.S.)

Page i Acclaim for Charles Wilkinson's The Eagle Bird "The Eagle Bird is the best handbook that I know for anyone who wants to know the history of the West and its probable future. Charles Wilkinson understands western attitudes, western inferiorities, western limitations, western pride and arrogance. He is hopeful that the West will arrive at workable compromises before it is destroyed by the big corporations of the extractive industries, or by its more native stockraisers and lumbermen and miners. Knowing so much, and being so reasonable, he almost persuades me that the West has a hopeful future. I would love to believe him. In fact, I think I do." Wallace Stegner "Not only does Wilkinson know how to enjoy a hike in the woods or casting a line in a rushing mountain stream (and write well about them) but also as a professor of law, an expert on Indian affairs and a specialist in land use, he understands the nuances and complexities of what it will take to save such treasures as the raptor of his title.... Simple, stylishly crafted essays." San Francisco Chronicle "Wilkinson is a writer with uncommon gifts and a thinker whose perception is as clear as Montana air. Our laws, values and traditions all conspire to vandalize the future, says Wilkinson, and our descendants will despise us if we do not change. That is a tough message to absorb, but Wilkinson makes it so wonderfully and elegantly clear." Marc Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert "Wilkinson writes beautifully, and he explores the nuances of issues often lost in the heat of struggle.... The Eagle Bird is a book that should be read by anyone interested in preserving the distinct character of the West." Seattle Times/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Page ii "We are in the midst of redefining our social and environmental priorities in the American West, and Charles Wilkinson is our most informed and responsible voice. We can read The Eagle Bird and begin to see hope for our future. The book is smart, wise, wonderfully said, and useful." William Kittredge "Wilkinson [is] the West's foremost legal authority on natural-resource management.... [His Eagle Bird] is both a soulful account of how nineteenth-century laws and traditions have shaped the West's attitudes toward the land and a hard-edged proposal for curbing the region's staggering growth." Outside magazine "Charles Wilkinson's essays are intellectual maps that chart bold, new territory for the reinhabitation of the American West. His prose is daring, sharp, rhapsodic, and visionary with a lightning bolt charge that awakens ecological justice. The Eagle Bird will become another sacred text in the body of environmental literature alongside A Sand County Almanac and Silent Spring because it inspires a responsive and compassionate citizenship." Terry Tempest Williams "Wilkinson's literate style blazes a clear trail through Western natural resources issues.... His essay, 'Toward an Ethic of Place,' ranks him with Aldo Leopold and Wallace Stegner in the handful of writers who have usefully shaped the environmental/developmental dialogue on the Western future." Denver Post

Page v The Eagle Bird Mapping a New West Revised and Updated Charles Wilkinson Johnson Books BOULDER

Page vi First Johnson Books Edition, 1999 Copyright 1992, 1999 by Charles F. Wilkinson The essays in this collection have been substantially revised since they were originally published in the following journals: Sweet Reason: Oregon Essays, Issue 2, copyright 1983 by the Oregon Committee for the Humanities; American West, copyright 1979 by American West; a special edition of the NARF Legal Review, to commemorate the Native American Rights Fund's fifteenth anniversary in 1985; the Denver Post; Trail and Timberline; the Oregonian; High Country News; Western Water Made Simple, by permission of Island Press, copyright 1987 by High Country News; Northern Lights; the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation; and the University of Colorado Law Review. Originally published in hardcover by Pantheon Books. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published in the United States by Johnson Books, a division of Johnson Publishing Company, 1880 South 57th Court, Boulder, Colorado 80301. E-mail: books@jpcolorado.com

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