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Founding the American Commons: A Documentary History of the People and Ideas That Shaped Public Lands and Wildlife Protection Policy

Founding the American Commons: A Documentary History of the People and Ideas That Shaped Public Lands and Wildlife Protection Policy

Wright, Brett A.
Wiggins, David K.
Wiggins, Brenda P.

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceGeneral United States History

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ISBN13: 9798895274187
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Pages: 472
Language: English

As the push to develop the interior reaches of the United States surged in the nineteenth century, a few visionary citizens advocated for identifying and protecting lands with superior scenery, abundant wildlife, and unique resources. Today, almost one-third of the nation's land base constitutes the American Commons, a designation that refers to our shared national resources, managed under a doctrine of public trust and manifest in the ideal of democratic governance.

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