Return of the Wild: The Future of Our Natural Lands

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Summary: Compelling treatise for saving wilderness
Review: This book does a marvelous job, through its various voices, of making the case for protecting our publicly owned domain as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. The essayists are some of today's most renown nature and political writers, and the content and flow of the pieces are very readable, very accessible. The general public will derive great benefit from this work, but so, too, will decision-makers and opinion leaders find it useful. In convincing manner, for instance, the supporting research would indicate that the Department of Interior or, more specifically, the Bureau of Land Management, must do much better in carrying out its legal responsibility to protect its public holdings as wilderness. The public is keenly interest in seeing it do so.