Public lands: A system in crisis

Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 64-72

  Nelson, Robert H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

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1. Citizens also readily acknowledge that national parks constitute a significant part of America's public lands. These parks, however, are set aside exclusively for the preservation of the nation's natural resources and the enjoyment of the American people. As a result, national parks are not subject to the same multiple-use pressures that are exerted on lands operated by the National Forest Service or BLM.
2. The Wilderness Act set aside lands for preservation "where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." New mining, timber harvesting, roads, and motorized vehicles are prohibited in wilderness areas. Unlike in National Parks, grazing and hunting are allowed.
3. William Cronon, "With the Best of Intentions," Foreword to Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1995), p. viii.
4. Daniel Kemmis, Community and the Politics of Place (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990), pp. 125, 127.
5. Jon A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax, The State Trust Lands: A Guide to their Management and Use (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1995).