| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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Book Review

From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy. By Michael P. Dombeck, Christopher A. Wood, and Jack E. Williams. (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2003. xvii + 220 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, notes, index. $40.00, cloth; $22.50, paper.)

"A land ethic changes the role of Homo sapiens from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it.... Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land." Written in 1947, Aldo Leopold's concept of a "land ethic" profoundly articulated the fundamental responsibility that humans have toward the rest of the natural world, inspiring three generations of Americans to reconsider the country's land-use practices. But, according to the authors of From Conquest to Conservation, this concept has been less successful in re-shaping public land-use management policies. Michael P. Dombeck, Christopher A. Wood, and Jack E. Williams—each career natural-resource managers with considerable experience in public lands management—contend that many of the policies implemented on their watch have been overturned or simply ignored as the Bush/Norton stratagem seeks a return to the nation's former public-land policies and aggressive resource giveaway practices of the pre-conservation era. The authors argue that today's public land debates—fundamental disagreements over issues that directly impact Forest Service and BLM resources comprising nearly one-third of the nation's land base—should matter to more than just sportsmen's lobbies and wilderness advocates.

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