| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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Book Review

Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective. Edited by Jill S. Baron. Foreword by Paul Ehrlich. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002. xvii + 325 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, bibliographies, index. $65.00, cloth; $32.50, paper.)

Those price figures above are not a misprint, and they speak loudly about this book. An anthology written by (and, obviously, for) research ecologists and geographers, Rocky Mountain Futures is not a volume that Island Press expects to sell. At almost $35.00 for the paperback, it's no candidate for classroom adoption, certainly. This is a research volume, plain and simple, which is too bad, because most of the authors seem to be issuing a serious call to the public for change in Rocky Mountain environmental policies. As editor Jill Baron writes in concluding the book, "[W]e forecast a future of continued erosion of natural processes and habitats in the Rocky Mountains if decisions continue to be made as they have in the past" (p. 302). The problem is that you'll grasp the full message only if your local library decides to cough up the tariff for this overpriced anthology.

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