This Is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups—in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee—revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems.

Here are stories of common people who, confronting environmental threats to the health and safety of their families and communitie...