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The American West at risk : science, myths, and politics of land abuse and recovery /
The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries,...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
Ã2008.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The American West at risk : |b science, myths, and politics of land abuse and recovery / |c Howard G. Wilshire, Jane E. Nielson, Richard W. Hazlett. |
| 260 | |a Oxford ; |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c Ã2008. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 444-593) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Obeying nature -- Once and future trees -- Harvesting the future -- Raiding the range -- Digging to China -- Routes of ruin -- Legacies of war -- Creating the nuclear wasteland -- No habitat but our own -- The last drops -- Garbage of the Golden West -- Tragedy of the playground -- Driving to the end of America's birthright -- Nature's way -- The needs of our posterity -- Appendix 1 : Conserving U.S. public lands : a chronology -- Appendix 2 : Best intentions : federal waste disposal laws -- Appendix 3 : Everything comes from the earth -- Appendix 4 : Biochemical war and you -- Appendix 5 : Destroyer of the worlds -- Appendix 6 : Plutonium fields forever -- Appendix 7 : Bombs for peace -- Appendix 8 : The bunker buster fantasy -- Appendix 9 : U.S. and them : the United States and world oil reserves -- Appendix 10 : "Democratizing" energy : hydrogen fuel cells. | |
| 520 | |a The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air an | ||
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