Foreword / Charles Wilkinson -- All the People's Land: The Wealth of the Nation -- Focus Essay: Public Lands: An American Birthright / Jack Ward Thomas -- Controversy Comes to the Public Lands -- Focus Essay: Birds and Battlefields and Humor: Things Could Be a Lot Worse / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Land Health: Broad-Scale Declines in Forest and Rangeland Conditions -- Focus Essay: Radical Changes in a Sagebrush Landscape: The Role of Exotic Cheatgrass in Disrupting a System / Steve T. Knick, Mark R. Fuller -- River and Stream Health: The Public/Private Land Connection -- Focus Essay: Rivers: Lifelines of the Land / Tim Palmer -- Roadless Areas: The Last Wild Places -- Focus Essay: A Dream for Healing the Kootenai / Rick Bass -- Focus Essay: The Heart of the West: BLM's National Landscape Conservation System / Bruce Babbitt -- Restoration: Healing the Land and Healing Ourselves -- Focus Essay: The Once and Future Land Ethic / Curt Meine, Nina Leopold Bradley -- Living within Limits: Our Search for Sustainability -- Focus Essay: Reforestation: Recognizing the Ties that Bind / David Perry -- The Upshot: Conservation Challenges for a New Century -- Focus Essay: Bringing People and Conservation Together: The Future Constituency for Public Lands / Mark Van Putten -- Focus Essay: Enduring Values of Our Public Lands: Peace, Wildness, and Beauty / Gaylord Nelson
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