1st Edition

An Introduction to U.S. Federal Public Lands

By Bruce Huber, James Skillen Copyright 2027
260 Pages 17 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 17 Color & 48 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the U.S. federal land system, explaining how public lands are used and managed. The federal government owns more than a quarter of all American land, encompassing national parks and forests, wildlife preserves and monuments. These federal lands are an essential feature of America’s politics, culture, and economy, and their... Read more

1: Introduction  2: How Did the Public Lands Become the Public Lands?  3: From Retention to Management: Forming Today’s Public Lands  4: Modern Public Land and Resource Law  5: The National Park Service  6: The National Wildlife Refuge System  7: The United States Forest Service  8: The Bureau of Land Management  9: Climate Change and the Public Lands  10: Wildfire and the Public Lands  11: Biological Diversity and the Public Lands  12: Recreation on the Public Lands  13: Mining and Energy Development on the Public Lands

Biography

Bruce Huber is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He is the author of many law review articles and book chapters and the co-editor of Energy Law and Economics (2018) and Environmental Law and Economics (2017).

James Skillen is Professor of Environmental Studies at Calvin University, USA, and Director of the Calvin Ecosystem Preserve and Native Gardens. He is the author of This Land Is My Land (2020), Federal Ecosystem Management (2015), and The Nation’s Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West (2009).