In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands p
Argues that legislative gridlock over environmental issues has increased the significance of alternative pathways for policymaking, including appropriations politics, executive-branch action, action
The "golden era" of American environmental lawmaking in the 1960s and 1970ssaw twenty-two pieces of major environmental legislation (including the Clean Air Act, the CleanWater Act, and the Endangered
In this second edition of their classic text, Klyza and Trombulak use the lens of interconnectedness to examine the geological, ecological, and cultural forces that came together to produce contempora