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This book focuses on the principles of wilderness, exploring the actual and potential values of wilderness, its ecology, economics, the effect of human impact, and mechanisms to protect small, relatively untouched tracts in or near urban areas in the United States.

This book examines the major issues involved in administering the eighty million acres of federal land that constitute the National Wilderness Preservation System. It analyzes a range of wilderness management concerns, including wildlife, fire, access, research, and conflicting uses.

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Editors Moore and Slovic have assembled 29 writers who know and love the Nevada wilderness to testify on its behalf. For those who love Nevada, for those who love the world beyond the concrete pavement, "Wild Nevada" will be thought-provoking and vital reading.

As a journalist, advocate, and professor, Michael Frome has spent decades engaged with conservation topics and has taken particular interest in America's national parks. He draws on this experience and knowledge to address what remains to be done in order to truly value and preserve these special places.

Michael Frome, who began his distinguished career in environmental journalism in the 1960s, has been called the dean of American conservation. As former Senator Gaylord Nelson once told the members of Congress, "No writer in America has more persistently and effectively argued for the need of a national ethics of environmental stewardship." In "Green Ink: An Introduction to Environmental Journalism, " Frome has forged decades of experience in ...

Nationally known environmental journalist documents the most urgent environmental issues to have confronted the Western U.S.

Michael Frome's "Battle for the Wilderness "is one of the important works of the American conservation movement. Centered on the struggle to pass the 1964 Wilderness Act, the first in a series of preservationist conventions that include the Endangered Species Act and the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, this book offers a well-written, workable definition of wilderness and presents conservation as a vital thread in American history. Part I discusse...

Michael Frome is the pioneer conservation journalist and the premier environmental muckraker who knows a lot about integrity and dedication. He spent years as a media writer defending the environment, while many of his peers played it safe. Frome named names and pointed fingers, often forcing politicians and public officials to explain and remedy their environmental negligence. His boldness often got him fired, but there was always another pat...

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Incluimos, por primera vez, en la colección Nan-Shan un texto contemporáneo. Su autor Michael Frome, es profesor de Recursos Naturales en la Universidad de Idaho que es lo mismo que decir, Naturaleza, Montañas, Parques Naturales, etc.Y de ésto es lo que trata este libro, y de las personas que han decidido, en su amor por la naturaleza, explorarla y no forzarla, disfrutar de ella desde dentro y no desde postales o películas filmadas en épocas v...

For five decades, Michael Frome has crisscrossed America in the cause of conservation. Writer, teacher, advocate, and activist, Frome is a captivating speaker who has inspired young and old in many settings and offended many others by taking a strong, courageous stand in defense of our nation's resources and against political expediency, entrenched bureaucracy, and corporate greed. Greenspeak is a collection of addresses made by Frome from 196...

In this expanded edition of his classic Strangers in High Places, Michael Frome continues to capture the attention and admiration of nature lovers, environmentalists, and professionals as he reviews the last quarter-century in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Frome's superbly written account tells the story of the Great Smoky Mountains and their inhabitants--Eastern Cherokee, back-country settlers, lumbermen, moonshiners, be...

Michael Frome, one of the most highly regarded observers of our parks, here tells how the National Park Service has been transformed from a professional to a political agency and has betrayed its own values by emphasizing "short-order wilderness served like fast food" rather than the preservation of our natural heritage.