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Book SynopsisShows how different constituencies worked to fill the presumed ‘empty space’ of the Great Basin with a variety of land-use regimes that overlapped, conflicted, and ultimately harmed the environment and the people who depended on the region for their livelihoods.
Trade ReviewLeisl Carr Childers has written a sweeping study of Nevada’s 12 million–acre Great Basin and the problems and promise of grazing, mining, recreation, and water policies on western public lands. From mushroom clouds to mustangs, Nevada’s Great Basin has been ground zero for multiple use land management. With
The Size of the Risk, a vast sagebrush sea has found its contemporary environmental historian." - Andrew Gulliford, author of
Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale and editor of
Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology"Brilliant in conception and execution,
TheSize of the Risk remaps the Great Basin, gives voice to its peoples, and reveals the rich complexities of this misunderstood environment. In Leisl Carr Childers’s able hands, mushroom clouds and mustangs share a dynamic and contested landscape where the ideal of multiple use faced some of its toughest tests. Excellent and important." - Andrew G. Kirk, author of
Counterculture Green:The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism
