Examines how the idea of wilderness has shaped the management of public lands since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964
Foreword
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One
Wilderness and the Origins of
Modern Environmentalism, 1964–1976
1 Why a Wilderness Act?
2 Speaking for Wilderness
3 The Popular Politics of Wilderness
4 New Environmental Tools for an Old Conservation Issue 101
Part Two
The Polarization of American Environmental Politics, 1977–1994
5 Alaska: “The Last Chance to Do It Right the First Time”
6 National Forests: The Polarization of Environmental Politics
7 The Public Domain: Environmental Politics and the Rise of the New
Right
Part Three
wilderness and a New Agenda for the Public Lands, 1987–2009
8 From Wilderness to Public Lands Reform
9 The New Prophets of Wilderness
10 The Paths to Public Lands Reform
Epilogue: Rebuilding the Wilderness
Movement
Notes
Bibliography
Index
James Morton Turner is assistant professor of environmental studies at Wellesley College.
"James Turner's insightful book demonstrates the continued vitality and centrality of wilderness within American environmentalism." Mark Harvey, author of Wilderness Forever: Howard Zahniser and the Path to the Wilderness Act "A superb study of the implementation of the Wilderness Act, and a springboard for a new period in wilderness thought and advocacy." Paul Sutter, author of Driven Wild: How the Fight Against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement "The most deeply researched, analytically rigorous, and elegantly written study of American wilderness politics since the 1960s yet produced." from the Foreword by William Cronon
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