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Traces the Bureau of Land Management's course over three periods - its formation in 1946 and early focus on livestock and mines, its 1970s role as mediator between commerce and conservation, and its experience of political gridlock since 1981 when it faced a powerful anti-environmental backlash.

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An excellent overview by an insightful historian of the role of the Bureau of Land Management in public land history from its inception after World War II through the first decade of the 21st century.... Should be at the top of reading lists in seminars and classes devoted to public land policy. William Rowley, author of The Bureau of Reclamation ""Skillen has done a marvelous job of keeping his biases in check. The result is a genuine history of - not a polemic against - the BLM. It fills a longstanding void in the literature and will be ideal for classes on natural resource policy or federal lands."" John Freemuth, author of Islands under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats

The Nations Largest Landlord The Bureau of Land Management in the American West

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      Publisher: MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas
      Publication Date: 30/09/2009
      ISBN13: 9780700616718, 978-0700616718
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces the Bureau of Land Management's course over three periods - its formation in 1946 and early focus on livestock and mines, its 1970s role as mediator between commerce and conservation, and its experience of political gridlock since 1981 when it faced a powerful anti-environmental backlash.

      Trade Review
      An excellent overview by an insightful historian of the role of the Bureau of Land Management in public land history from its inception after World War II through the first decade of the 21st century.... Should be at the top of reading lists in seminars and classes devoted to public land policy. William Rowley, author of The Bureau of Reclamation ""Skillen has done a marvelous job of keeping his biases in check. The result is a genuine history of - not a polemic against - the BLM. It fills a longstanding void in the literature and will be ideal for classes on natural resource policy or federal lands."" John Freemuth, author of Islands under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats

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