Holding Common Ground: The Individual And Public Lands In The American West

by Lindholdt, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781597660006
• ISBN10: 1597660000
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-30
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

In this anthology thirty western environmental writers speak of their personal and often passionate feelings for the land, from the tundra in Alaska to the White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico. Original contributions by well-known essayists such as Michael P. Branch, Louise Freeman-Toole, Sharman Apt Russell, Kathleen Dean Moore, and Robert Michael Pyle evidence that the very personal relationships to the physical land remain unchanged at a time of increasing pressure on public spaces throughout the West.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
Hearing the Call	p. 3
Awakenings
White Sands Missile Range	p. 11
The Middle Ground	p. 18
Northwest Passages	p. 23
Going Wild	p. 28
Slate Mountain	p. 33
Full-Stomach Wilderness and the Suburban Esthetic	p. 36
Rattlesnakes, Shipwrecks, and Terra Incognita in Palos Verdes Peninsula	p. 41
Dances with Bears	p. 48
Finding the Forest: Citizen Activisim in the Truckee River Watershed	p. 53
Right in My Back Yard, or Confessions of a RIMBY	p. 59
Challenges
Wedded to the Cause	p. 67
The River Home	p. 71
Civil Disobedience and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge	p. 75
Buffalo Field Campaign	p. 79
Dear Mom and Dad-Send Food	p. 84
Looking Down from Hale-Bopp	p. 89
The Toll Road	p. 92
War Among the Saguaros	p. 97
The Troubling Dawn	p. 104
Clearwater Journal	p. 109
Victories
Lost and Found	p. 117
Great Sand Dunes: The Shape of the Wind	p. 122
A Little Garden of Sand: Bringing Back San Francisco's Native Dunes	p. 127
Postcards from the Pleistocene: Saving Hendrickson Canyon	p. 132
Long Canyon	p. 139
Turnaround for a Threatened Wilderness	p. 144
Herons, Eagles, People, and Parks: A Cautionary Tale from a British Columbia Gulf Island	p. 148
Chaparral Gold: Point Mugu	p. 153
In View of the Condor	p. 160
Amazing Grace	p. 165
Notes on Contributors	p. 171
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