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100 1 $aScott, Doug,$d1944-
245 14 $aThe enduring wilderness /$cDoug Scott.
260 $aGolden, Colo. :$bFulcrum Pub.,$cc2004.
300 $axii, 184 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction. People saving wilderness ... for people ; The impulse to preserve wildness ; The Wilderness Act: a people's law ; Challenges ahead -- Wilderness in our lives. The wilderness we have saved ; What preserving wilderness requires -- Wilderness: from concept to action. Part 1: The wilderness idea. The need for wilderness ; John Muir ; Wilderness vanishing ; National parks and wilderness -- Part 2: The beginnings of a wilderness preservation policy. Aldo Leopold ; The first wilderness area and the "L-20" regulation ; Bob Marshall ; The Wilderness Society ; Forest wilderness or national parks? ; "Wilderness" and "wild areas"-the "U" regulations -- Wilderness: "there ought to be a law." How permanent? ; "Not by law" ; The idea of a comprehensive wilderness program ; Howard Zahniser ; Imagining a wilderness law ; Building consensus ; Echo Park -- The "Wilderness Bill" ; The eight-year legislative odyssey -- Putting the new Wilderness Act to work. The law changed everything ; The ten-year wilderness review process ; Stewart Brandborg ; The "great liberating force" ; Grassroots organizing and citizen wilderness proposals ; Congress expands agency wilderness proposals ; Eastern wilderness and the "purity theory" ; The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act ; National Park Service resistance to wilderness designation ; Wilderness in national wildlife refuges -- Expanding the scope of wilderness preservation. The "60 million-acre myth" ; Part 1: National forest "roadless areas." Scapegoat: the first citizen initiated wilderness area ; NEPA, roadless areas, and "RARE" ; The Endangered American Wilderness Act and "RARE-II" ; Release language and the post-RARE-II wilderness laws -- Part 2: The Bureau of Land Management joins the wilderness program. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act ; The loss of big wilderness ; The national forest roadless area conservation rule -- Part 3: Wilderness on a scale to match Alaska. The Alaska Coalition and "D-2" ; The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act -- Wilderness yet to save. Our unprotected wilderness ; How much unprotected wilderness? ; Giving roadless areas a fair shake ; Giving roadless areas the brush-off ; Anything but statutory wilderness ; The majority of Americans are "not at the table" as the fate of wilderness is decided by agencies -- Wilderness politics. The power of public opinion for wilderness ; Wilderness opponents ; What the polls say about public attitudes ; The realities of legislative politics ; Wilderness and compromise ; The geography of wilderness politics ; Connecting wilderness with people ; The wilderness system of the future -- The challenges of wilderness stewardship. "Guardians not gardeners" ; The Wilderness Act's stewardship mandate ; The nondegradation principle ; Dealing with noncomforming issues ; Wilderness stewardship in practice ; Seeing wilderness areas in a larger context ; "Inholdings" and the Wilderness Land Trust -- Wilderness in other realms. Tribal wilderness ; State wilderness ; The scale of state-designated wilderness ; Wilderness around the world ; People saving wilderness around the world -- An enduring resource of wilderness.
650 0 $aWilderness areas$xGovernment policy$zUnited States.
650 0 $aWilderness areas$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States.
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