Title: The
Lands To Conserve Native Biodiversity
Volume 5 in the Legal History of North America series.
From the front dust jacket flap:
Livestock grazing is the most widespread commercial use of federal
public lands. The image of a herd grazing on Bureau of Land
Management or U.S. Forest Service lands is so traditional that many
view this use as central to the history and culture of the West. Yet
the grazing program costs far more to administer than it generates
in revenues, and grazing affects all other uses of public lands,
causing potentially irreversible damage to native wildlife and
vegetation.
The Western Range Revisited proposes a landscape-level strategy
for conserving native biological diversity on federal rangelands, a
strategy based chiefly on removing livestock from large tracts of
arid BLM lands in ten western states.
Drawing from range ecology, conservation biology, law, and
economics, Debra L. Donahue examines the history of federal
grazing policy and the current debate on federal multiple-use,
sustained-yield policies and changing priorities for our public lands.
Donahue, a lawyer and wildlife biologist, uses existing laws and
regulations, historical documents, economic statistics, and current
scientific thinking to make a strong case for a land-management
strategy that has been, until now, "unthinkable."
A groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, The Western Range
Revisited demonstrates that conserving biodiversity by eliminating
or reducing livestock grazing makes economic sense, is ecologically
expedient, and can be achieved under current law.
By: Debra L. Donahue
Publisher:
ISBN: 0-8061-3176-4
Copyright: 1999, First edition, first printing.
Size/Format: 6 3/8" x 9 1/2", hardcover with dust jacket, 388
pages.
Condition: Very Good+/Very Good+ Very clean, crisp & tight pages,
no markings. Printers flaw at top of back endpaper--small area
folded and glued underneath. Minimal dust jacket shelf wear. 388
pages.
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