Grand Canyon For Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change

by Stephen Nash

Overview

Grand Canyon For Sale is a carefully researched investigation of the precarious future of America’s public lands: our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, and wildernesses. Taking the Grand Canyon as his key example, and using on-the-ground reporting as well as scientific research, Stephen Nash shows how accelerating climate change will dislocate wildlife populations and vegetation across hundreds of thousands of square miles of the national landscape.
 
In addition, a growing political movement, well financed and occasionally violent, is fighting to break up these federal lands and return them to state, local, and private control. That scheme would foreclose the future for many wild species, which are part of our irreplaceable natural heritage, and also would devastate our national parks, forests, and other public lands.
 
To safeguard wildlife and their habitats, it is essential to consolidate protected areas and prioritize natural systems over mining, grazing, drilling, and logging. Grand Canyon For Sale provides an excellent overview of the physical and biological challenges facing public lands. The book also exposes and shows how to combat the political activity that threatens these places in the U.S. today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520291478
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	09/05/2017
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Stephen Nash is the author of two award-winning books on science and the environment, and his reporting has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, BioScience, Archaeology, and the New Republic. He is Visiting Senior Research Scholar at the University of Richmond.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Brink
2. Alien Abductions
3. Landscapes in Motion
4. Ghost Tour
5. Tusayans
6. Destitution Park
7. Air and Uncle John
8. Mount Trumbull
9. Cash Cows
10. Sacred Cowboys
11. Treasure Maps
12. Thrill Rides
13. Capture and Corruption
14. The Lost Orphan’s Legacy

Notes
Sources and Bibliography
Index

Map Insert Follows Page 22

Editorial Reviews

"Evocative and passionate, this examination of invasive species, climate change, and public land use will appeal to both politically minded outdoors enthusiasts and members of the ranching community."

Foreword Reviews

A wake-up call for anyone who cares about public lands, especially the U.S. national parks.”
 

Science

"...offers insight into how our public lands were created — and what that means as we fight to protect them today and in the future."

The Revelator

"Like a Romantic poet of the fossil fuel era, Nash uses Canyon trail hikes as a way to frame the various destructive forces playing on the park. With elegant, readable prose, elegant, readable prose, Nash scales mountains of research to show how these concerns are not unique to the Grand Canyon."

SIERRA Magazine

A nuanced, comprehensive, surprisingly up-to-date review of the threats facing the United States' 2.5 million square kilometres of publicly owned land.”

Nature

A wake-up call for anyone who cares about public lands, especially the U.S. national parks.”
 

Science

A nuanced, comprehensive, surprisingly up-to-date review of the threats facing the United States' 2.5 million square kilometres of publicly owned land.”

Nature Lib