High Noon in the West. / Terry McCarthy.
by McCarthy, Terry; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 35Environment. Publisher: Los Angeles Times Syndicate, 2001ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Coalbed methane | Gas well drilling | Land use | Mineral rights | National parks and reserves -- Protection | Natural resources | Nature conservation | Off-road vehicles | Public lands | Radioactive waste sites | Right of property | Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (Oregon) | West (United States) | White River National Forest (Colorado) | Yucca Mountain (Nevada)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the first national park, has become a focal point in the latest chapter in the epic Battle for the West that has raged for two centuries. The Bush Administration is pushing hard to open up large tracts of public land to drilling, logging, nuclear-waste storage and off-road vehicles. Whether it means exploring for oil in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, easing up on Clinton Administration road closings that put a third of the national forests off limits to logging or suspending new listings on the Endangered Species Act, the message from the White House is clear: the West is open for business." (TIME) The author addresses the controversy over who owns control of the land in the West and who should decide for what purpose it is used.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: High Noon in the West, July 16, 2001; pp. 18+.
"Yellowstone, established in 1872 as the first national park, has become a focal point in the latest chapter in the epic Battle for the West that has raged for two centuries. The Bush Administration is pushing hard to open up large tracts of public land to drilling, logging, nuclear-waste storage and off-road vehicles. Whether it means exploring for oil in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, easing up on Clinton Administration road closings that put a third of the national forests off limits to logging or suspending new listings on the Endangered Species Act, the message from the White House is clear: the West is open for business." (TIME) The author addresses the controversy over who owns control of the land in the West and who should decide for what purpose it is used.
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