Public Lands and Private Rights The Failure of Scientific Management

by Nelson, Robert H.; Fairfax, Sally K.

• ISBN13: 9780847680092
• ISBN10: 0847680096
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-27
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

One of the leading experts on public lands and land rights issues, Robert H. Nelson here brings together a collection of his finest essays. Nelson demonstrates that the 'progressive' goal of achieving scientific management of public lands has not been realized; instead, public land management has been dominated by interest group politics and ideology.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Intentions Are Not Good Enough	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Ineffective Laws and Unexpected Consequences: A Brief Review of Public Land History	p. 5
The Failed Promise of Scientific Management	p. 39
Introduction	p. 41
Mythology Instead of Analysis: The Story of National Forest Management	p. 43
Uneconomic Analysis: Scientific Management on the Public Rangelands	p. 91
The Illusion of Planning: The Origins of the BLM and Forest Service Land Use Planning Systems	p. 121
The New Range Wars	p. 147
Introduction	p. 149
NRDC v. Morton: Judicial Policy Making in Public Rangeland Management	p. 151
The Schizophrenic West: Why the Sagebrush Rebellion Died	p. 167
Selling Other People's Property: Why the Privatization Movement Failed	p. 183
Rethinking the Public Lands	p. 201
Introduction	p. 203
Making Sense of the Sagebrush Rebellion: A Long-Term Strategy for the Public Lands	p. 205
From Progressivism to Interest-group Liberalism: The Crisis of Public Land Authority	p. 227
Decentralizing the National Forests	p. 247
Options for Change	p. 255
Introduction	p. 257
Some Economics of Public Rangelands	p. 259
A New Mission for RPA: Improving Market Mechanisms on Public and Private Forests	p. 275
One-third of the Nation's Coal: Planning a Market for Federal Coal Leasing	p. 287
Four Good Places to Decentralize and Privatize	p. 303
How to Dismantle the Interior Department	p. 319
Private Rights to Public Lands	p. 329
Introduction	p. 331
Private Rights to Government Actions: How Modern Property Rights Evolve	p. 333
Index	p. 365
About the Author	p. 375
Table of Contents provided by Syndetics. All Rights Reserved.