How it is that the United States-the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world-has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as Public lands? Now in a fully revised and updated Edition covering the first years of the Trump administration, Randall Wilson considers this intriguing question, tracing the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America\'s Public land system.
The result is a fresh and probing account o.
How it is that the United States-the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world-has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as Public lands? Now in a fully revised and updated Edition covering the first years of the Trump administration, Randall Wilson considers this intriguing question, tracing the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America\'s Public land system