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Our Common Ground

A History of America's Public Lands

John D. Leshy

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General

Part 1: Public Lands in the Formative Era, 1776-1789 : The Nation's Founding and the Public Lands -- Public Lands and the Ordinances of 1784, 1785, and 1787 -- The U.S. Constitution and the Public Lands -- Part 2: The Public Lands and Nation Building, 1790-1861 : Admitting New States and Acquiring New Territory -- Exploration, Science, and the Appreciation of Nature -- Divesting Public Lands to Build a Nation -- Reservations and Acquisitions of Public Lands -- Public Land Policy in Confusion in the Period Before the Civil War -- Part 3: Plunder and Backlash Feed a Movement for Reserves, 1862-1889 : New Divestment Policies Sow Seeds of a Backlash -- More Giveaways Sow More Seeds of Discontent -- Protecting Public Lands for Inspiration: Yosemite and Yellowstone -- Pillaging Public Lands for Wood, Grass, and Minerals -- Efforts Launched to Protect Public Forest Land -- Moving Beyond "Paper Parks" -- Wildlife Protection Enters the Policy Universe -- The Campaign for Forest Reservations Gains Momentum -- Congress Closes In on Major Reforms -- Part 4: The Great Transition, Phase One, 1890-1901 : Congress Guts Powell's Irrigation Survey and Establishes New National Parks -- Congress Gives the President Broad Authority to Reserve Public Lands -- The First Forest Reserves -- The General Land Office Struggles and Cleveland Spurs Congress into Action -- An Organic Act for the Forest Reserves -- Parks, Forests, and Public Land Policy in the McKinley Administration -- National Authority over Public Lands Expanded and Confirmed -- Part 5: The Great Transition, Phase Two, 1902-1913 : Theodore Roosevelt, Public Lands, and the Reclamation Act -- Forest Reserves Expand in Roosevelt's First Term -- The Forest Service Takes Control of the Forest Reserves -- Roosevelt and Congress Use Public Lands to Protect Wildlife Habitat -- Public Lands, Science, and History: The Antiquities Act -- Roosevelt and National Parks -- Making New Forest Reserves: Congress Challenges the President -- Roosevelt, Public Lands, and Energy Development -- Public Lands in the Handoff from Roosevelt to Taft -- Taft's Undervalued Record on Public Land Conservation -- National Forests Become National with Enactment of the Weeks Act -- Public Lands at the End of the Age of Theodore Roosevelt -- Part 6: Public Land Policy Between the Roosevelts, 1913-1933 : National Parks Take Center Stage -- The National Park System's Early Years -- The National Forest System Matures and Evolves -- The Forest and Park Services Compete and Cooperate -- Ranchers, Homesteaders, and Energy Developers Compete for Primacy -- The End of the Progressive Era -- Debating the Future of Unreserved Public Lands -- Wildlife Protection Gains Prominence -- Public Lands and Multipurpose Water Development -- Part 7: Filling in the Gaps in Public Land Policy, 1933-1960 : The Taylor Grazing Act -- National Parks in the New Deal -- A System of Wildlife Refuges Begins to Emerge -- Other New Deal Public Land Policies -- Grazing and Logging the Public Lands in the Postwar Era -- Mineral Policy Developments Onshore and Offshore -- Part 8: Public Lands in Modern Times, 1961-Present : The Wilderness Act Reshapes Public Land Policy -- New Labels and New Means of Protecting Public Values in Public Lands -- Making the Modern Bureau of Land Management -- Making the Modern Forest Service -- Charting the Future of Public Lands in Alaska -- Making the Modern U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service -- Making the Modern National Park Service -- Mineral and Energy Development in the Modern Era -- Public Lands and Native Americans in the Modern Era -- The Politics of Public Lands in the Modern Era: Change or Continuity? -- Public Lands Today -- Public Lands and the Future.
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