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An Open Pit Visible from the Moon

An Open Pit Visible from the Moon

The Wilderness Act and the Fight to Protect Miners Ridge and the Public Interest

by Adam M. Sowards

An Open Pit Visible from the Moon tells the story of this historic struggle to define the contours of the Wilderness Act—its possibilities and limits. Combining rigorous analysis and deft storytelling, Adam M. Sowards re-creates the contest between Kennecott and its shareholders on one hand and activists on the other, intent on maintaining wilderness as a place immune to the calculus of profit.

Disappearing Desert

Disappearing Desert

The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl

by Janine Schipper

Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. The city’s expansion—at the rate of one acre per hour—comes at the expense of its Sonoran Desert environment. For some residents, the American Dream has become a nightmare.In this provocative book, Janine Schipper examines the cultural forces that contribute to suburban sprawl in the United States. Focusing on the Phoenix area, she examines sustainable development in Cave Creek, various master-planned suburbs, and the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation to explore suburbanization and ecological destruction.

All the Water the Law Allows

All the Water the Law Allows

Las Vegas and Colorado River Politics

by Christian S. Harrison

Christian S. Harrison demonstrates in All the Water the Law Allows, the threat of shortage arises not from the local environment but from the American legal system, specifically the Law of the River that governs water allocation from the Colorado River.

Silver Fox of the Rockies

Silver Fox of the Rockies

Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts

by Daniel Tyler

Foreword by Donald J. Pisani

In Silver Fox of the Rockies, Daniel Tyler tells Carpenter’s story and that of the great interstate water compacts he helped create. Those compacts, produced in the early twentieth century, have guided not only agricultural use but urban growth and development throughout much of the American West to this day.

Copper Stain

Copper Stain

ASARCO's Legacy in El Paso

by Elaine Hampton and Cynthia C. Ontiveros

Drs. Elaine Hampton and Cynthia C. Ontiveros weave this eloquent testimony into a cautionary tale of toxic exposure, community activism, and a corporate employer’s dubious relationship with ethics—set against the political tug-of-war between industry’s demands and government’s obligation to protect the health of its people and the environment.
 

Crossroads of Change

Crossroads of Change

The People and the Land of Pecos

by Cori Knudten and Maren Bzdek

Located on a natural trade route, Pecos has long served as a portal between different cultures and environments. Documenting this transformation over the ages, Crossroads of Change also, perhaps, shows us Pecos National Historical Park as a portal to the future.
 

Red Dirt Country

Red Dirt Country

Field Notes and Essays on Nature

by John Gifford

From airport birdwatching and getting lost in an urban forest, to rethinking society’s ill-fated war on wildlife and our struggle to reshape the American landscape, Red Dirt Country invites readers to savor the joys of our natural surroundings. Written by Oklahoma native John Gifford, this timely book is a literary meditation on the Oklahoma landscape and the rich biodiversity of the southern Great Plains.
 

Walking the Llano

Walking the Llano

A Texas Memoir of Place

by Shelley Armitage

Reminiscent of the work of memoirists Terry Tempest Williams and John McPhee, Walking the Llano is both a celebration of an oft-overlooked region and a soaring testimony to the power of the landscape to draw us into greater understanding of ourselves and others by experiencing a deeper connection with the places we inhabit.

Big Dams of the New Deal Era

Big Dams of the New Deal Era

A Confluence of Engineering and Politics

by David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson

Richly illustrated, Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape—both politically and physically—and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly.

Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist

Montana's Pioneer Naturalist

Morton J. Elrod

by George M. Dennison

In this biography of a prominent scientist now almost forgotten, George M. Dennison—longtime president of the University of Montana—demonstrates how Elrod’s scholarship and philosophy regarding science and nature made him one of Montana’s most distinguished naturalists, conservationists, and educators.

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