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Summary
"Subsidized liquidation of old-growth forests. Grazing rights leased at below-market rates. Mineral resources extracted with trifling royalty payments, or none at all. Water developments built with interest-free loans." "These and other actions serve private interests extremely well but inflict massive costs on society at large. They are but the most visible signs of the fundamental flaws in the current system of federal lands management. In Plundered Promise, leading resource management scholar Richard W. Behan presents a thought-provoking history and analysis of public lands management in the United States, as he describes how we arrived at the current situation and examines what we can do to rectify it."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author Notes
Richard W. Behan is professor emeritus of natural resource policy and dean emeritus of the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Chapter 1 The Overture, in Theory and Practice | p. 1 |
| A Swatch of the Planet, a Parade of People | p. 1 |
| A Case Study: The Liquidation of Montana's Forests | p. 22 |
| Chapter 2 The Foundations of License: The Economics and Politics of Freedom, 1788-1891 | p. 43 |
| Cultures, Resources, and One Hundred Years | p. 43 |
| Building the Foundations of License | p. 48 |
| The Federal Lands from 1788 to 1891 | p. 63 |
| Democracy Tries Again ... and Again | p. 67 |
| Chapter 3 Altering the Foundations of License, 1891-1934 | p. 77 |
| Trading Sovereignty for Abundance: The Rise of Corporate Capitalism | p. 77 |
| Confronting Corporate Capitalism: A New Mission for the Federal Lands | p. 81 |
| The Federal Land as Public Lands | p. 104 |
| Chapter 4 A Prelude to Overshoot: Professional Management for the Federal Lands, 1934-76 | p. 115 |
| Coping with Scarcity amid Escalating Abundance | p. 115 |
| A Unified View Emerges, but a Convulsion Is Replayed | p. 139 |
| Chapter 5 The Economics and Politics of License: Corruption and Predation, 1976 to the Present | p. 159 |
| The Institutional Tables Are Turned | p. 159 |
| Potomac Fever, Planning, and Pillage | p. 182 |
| Chapter 6 Revoking the License | p. 197 |
| Revolution, Revision, and Recasting | p. 198 |
| In Pursuit of the Promise | p. 202 |
| Index | p. 229 |
