From Conquest To Conservation

Author : Michael P. Dombeck
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Conquest to Conservation written by Michael P. Dombeck and published by . This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Conquest to Conservation is a visionary new work from three of the nation’s most knowledgeable experts on public lands. As chief of the Forest Service, Mike Dombeck became a lightning rod for public debate over issues such as the management of old-growth forests and protecting roadless areas. Dombeck also directed the Bureau of Land Management from 1994 to 1997 and is the only person ever to have led the two largest land management agencies in the United States. Chris Wood and Jack Williams have similarly spent their careers working to steward public resources, and the authors bring unparalleled insight into the challenges facing public lands and how those challenges can be met. Here, they examine the history of public lands in the United States and consider the most pressing environmental and social problems facing public lands. Drawing heavily on fellow Forest Service employee Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, they offer specific suggestions for new directions in policy and management that can help maintain and restore the health, diversity, and productivity of public land and water resources, both now and into the future. Also featured are lyrical and heartfelt essays from leading writers, thinkers, and scientists— including Bruce Babbitt, Rick Bass, Patricia Nelson Limerick, and Gaylord Nelson—about the importance of public lands and the threats to them, along with original drawings by William Millonig.

Author : Derek A. Whitelock
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Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquest to Conservation written by Derek A. Whitelock and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 considers the environment of South Australia before European settlement and discusses Aboriginal reverance for the land and their neglible impact upon the landscape ; appendix includes a description of all South Australian National parks and reserves.

Author : Walter Clay Lowdermilk
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years written by Walter Clay Lowdermilk and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Missouri Historical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West written by Missouri Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the complex relationship between the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and the modern American West. The questions Jefferson posed about the West and what it might become still hold relevance for westerners today.

Author : Missouri Historical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West written by Missouri Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the complex relationship between the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and the modern American West. The questions Jefferson posed about the West and what it might become still hold relevance for westerners today.

Author : Karl Jacoby
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520282299
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crimes Against Nature written by Karl Jacoby and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-02-22 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Study of the Early American conservation movement reveals the hidden history of three of the nation's first parks: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Karl Jacoby traces the effects that the criminalization of such traditional rural practices as hunting, fishing, and foraging had on country people in these areas. Despite the presence of new environmental regulations, poaching arson, and timber stealing became widespread among the Native Americans, poor whites, and others who had long relied on the natural resources now contained within conservation areas. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes," providing a rich and multifaceted portrayal of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." "Crimes against Nature includes previously unpublished historical photographs depicting such subjects as poachers in Yellowstone and a Native American "squatters' camp" at the Grand Canyon. This study demonstrates the importance of considering class for understanding environmental history and opens a new perspective on the social history of rural and poor people a century age."--Jacket of 2001 edition

Author : C. Timothy Lindstrom
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610910540
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tax Guide to Conservation Easements written by C. Timothy Lindstrom and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voluntary land conservation, resulting from increasingly alluring tax benefits, has significantly changed the face of land use in the United States and promises to have an even more significant influence in the future. There are more than 1,500 land trusts in the U.S. today, involving millions of acres of land that have been permanently protected by conservation easements. Most of these land trusts depend heavily upon the significant income or estate tax benefits offered by the federal tax code as an incentive for voluntary land conservation. However, only a very small percentage of land trust personnel, landowners or their advisors, or even government officials, fully understand the complexity of the requirements for these tax benefits. This is a comprehensive book on the tax benefits of the charitable contribution, or bargain sale, of a conservation easement. It provides a detailed explanation of the complex and extensive requirements of the federal tax code and related concepts, including the rules governing the operation of tax-exempt organizations such as land trusts. Clearly written, systematic in its coverage, it is intended to be of value for anyone who deals with land trust issues, including land trust staff and trustees, landowners, lawyers, accountants, government officials, and interested lay people. Structured for easy reference, A Tax Guide to Conservation Easements is designed to be used as a resource tool. Related topics are cross-referenced throughout. All principles in the book are illustrated with one or more useful examples. The tax benefits of contributing a conservation easement are unquestionably the heart of voluntary land conservation today. Knowledge of the tax law relating to land trusts and conservation easements is vital to properly establishing and managing land trusts and to insuring the tax deductibility of conservation easements. The future of voluntary land conservation is dependent on a clear understanding of tax policy. Complete, meticulous, and up to date, A Tax Guide to Conservation Easements is an essential handbook.

Author : Walter Clay Lowdermilk
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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conquest of the Land Through 7,000 Years written by Walter Clay Lowdermilk and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Clay Lowdermilk
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
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Download or read book Conquest of the Land Through Seven Thousand Years written by Walter Clay Lowdermilk and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : U. S. Department U.S. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497501775
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Conquest of the Land Through 7000 Years written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of Agriculture and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquest of the Land through 7,000 Years" is Dr. Lowdermilk's personal report of a study he made in 1938 and 1939. Despite changes in names of countries, in political boundaries, and in conservation technology, the bulletin still has significance for all peoples concerned with maintaining and improving farm production. Dr. Lowdermilk studied the record of agriculture in countries where the land had been under cultivation for hundreds, even thousands, of years. His immediate mission was to find out if the experience of these older civilizations could help in solving the serious soil erosion and land use problems in the United States, then struggling with repair of the Dust Bowl and the Sullied South. He discovered that soil erosion, deforestation, overgrazing, neglect, and conflicts between cultivators and herdsman have helped topple empires and wipe out entire civilizations. At the same time, he learned that careful stewardship of the earth's resources, through terracing, crop rotation, and other soil conservation measures, has enabled other societies to flourish for centuries. The Natural Resources Conservation Service has reprinted this bulletin without change to meet the continuing demand from teachers, clergymen, writers, college professors, garden clubs, environmental groups, and service organizations for copies of the report as originally written by Dr. Lowdermilk