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Item Information       Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content     More by this author     Ketcham, Christopher, 1973-     Subjects     Ketcham, Christopher, 1973- -- Travel -- West (U.S.)     Public lands -- West (U.S.).     Environmental degradation -- West (U.S.).     Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- United States.     Political corruption -- Environmental aspects -- United States.     Environmentalists -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.     West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Ketcham, Christopher, 1973-       by title:      This land : how cowb...       by call number:      333.730978 K43t     Search the Web     Ketcham, Christopher, 1973-     Ketcham, Christopher, 1973- -- Travel -- West (U.S.)     Public lands -- West (U.S.).     Environmental degradation -- West (U.S.).     Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- United States.     Political corruption -- Environmental aspects -- United States.     Environmentalists -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.     West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions.       MARC Display

This land : how cowboys, capitalism, and corruption are ruining the American West / Christopher Ketcham. by Ketcham, Christopher, 1973- Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019. Call #: 333.730978 K43t Subjects Ketcham, Christopher, 1973- -- Travel -- West (U.S.)   Public lands -- West (U.S.).   Environmental degradation -- West (U.S.).   Capitalism -- Environmental aspects -- United States.   Political corruption -- Environmental aspects -- United States.   Environmentalists -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.   West (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions. ISBN:  9780735220980 (hc.) Alternate title:  How cowboys, capitalism, and corruption are ruining the American West Description:  422 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "The public lands of the western United States comprise some four hundred fifty million acres of grassland, steppe, canyons, forests, and mountains. It is an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing the commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and goes on to expose rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by not only livestock interests but also the rapacious energy companies the agencies are supposed to regulate. Ketcham then turns to the broad effects of this corrupt regime on the fate of wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act -- including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse - and investigates the destructive behavior of the federal Wildlife Services program's shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. He chronicles the rise of collaborative Big Green groups, allied with the Democratic Party, as they degenerate into "working relationships" with industry to log and develop public lands. Throughout his narratives, Ketcham speaks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey -- part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair -- exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sellout of our national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled, denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing; enforcing the laws already in place to defend biodiversity; allowing the native species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered Species Act; and establishing vast stretches of public land where there will be no development at all, not even for recreation."--Back cover. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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