TY - BOOK AU - Wilshire,Howard Gordon AU - Nielson,Jane E. AU - Hazlett,Richard W. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The American West at risk: science, myths, and politics of land abuse and recovery AV - QH76.5.W34 W57 2008 U1 - 333.720978 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Nature conservation KW - West (U.S.) KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Land use KW - Environmental aspects KW - Environmental conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Once and future trees -- Harvesting the future -- Raiding the range -- Digging to China -- Routes of ruin -- Legacies of war -- Creating the nuclear wasteland -- No habitat but our own -- The last drops -- Garbage of the golden west -- Tragedy of the playground -- Driving to the end of America's birthright -- Nature's way; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=472093 ER -