This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
By: Christopher Ketcham
4.07
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
"A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time." --Outside A hard…
Want to Read $ 7.99"In eastern Oregon and Washington, where grazing reigns supreme, an estimated 90 percent of the sage biome is gone."-Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
"The fate of our national mammal is decided by ranchers who act as self-appointed representatives of the American people."-Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
"The top 10 percent of grazing-permit holders on federal lands own 50 percent of all livestock on those lands; the bottom 50 percent own just 5 percent."-Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
"Among all the factors that contribute to habitat fragmentation--which is the leading threat to biodiversity in the West--roads are at the top of the list."-Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
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1. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
By: Edward Abbey
4.08
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more
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"The night. The stars. The river."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"I piss on you from a considerable height."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
2. Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
By: David Owen
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes The Colorado … read more
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3. All The Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
By: David Gessner
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Archetypal wild man Edward Abbey and proper, dedicated Wallace Stegner left their footprints all ov… read more
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4. Yellowstone Standoff (National Park Mystery, #3)
By: Scott Graham
3.90
Format: 77 pages, Paperback
Book three in the National Park Mystery Series, Yellowstone Standoff takes readers deep into the ba… read more
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5. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more
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6. The Last Season
By: Eric Blehm
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
To pick up The Last Seasonis to lose oneself in a mesmerizing story about a place few could survive… read more
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7. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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8. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance
By: Dan Egan
4.23
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more
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9. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more
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"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
10. Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
By: Douglas W. Tallamy
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, sparked a national conversation about the li… read more
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11. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
By: Dan Flores
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more
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"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
12. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
By: Oliver Milman
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more
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13. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
14. Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton
By: Kevin Grange
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Wild Rescues is a fast-paced, firsthand glimpse into the exciting lives of paramedics who work with… read more
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15. This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
By: Christopher Ketcham
4.07
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
"A big, bold book about public lands . . . The Desert Solitaire of our time." --Outside A hard… read more
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- westerns
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- nonfiction
- economics
- environment
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- science
"In eastern Oregon and Washington, where grazing reigns supreme, an estimated 90 percent of the sage biome is gone."-Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
"The fate of our national mammal is decided by ranchers who act as self-appointed representatives of the American people."-Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
"The top 10 percent of grazing-permit holders on federal lands own 50 percent of all livestock on those lands; the bottom 50 percent own just 5 percent."-Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
"Among all the factors that contribute to habitat fragmentation--which is the leading threat to biodiversity in the West--roads are at the top of the list."-Christopher Ketcham, This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
16. Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow
By: Heather Hansman
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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17. Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future
By: Daniel Lewis
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A compelling global exploration of nature and survival as seen via a dozen species of trees that re… read more
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18. Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
By: Justin Farrell
3.69
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilde… read more
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"This scholarly shortfall did not happen by chance. Part of it has to do with particular discomforts characteristics of left-leaning academic social scientists. Conducting high-quality ethnographic or…"-Justin Farrell, Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
19. Arches Enemy (National Park Mystery, #5)
By: Scott Graham
3.69
Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition
A famed sandstone arch in Utah’s Arches National Park collapses and takes a woman atop it to her de… read more
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20. Saguaro Sanction (National Park Mystery Series)
By: Scott Graham
3.89
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
Janelle Ortega and Chuck Bender are drawn deep into a threatening web of hostility and deceit in Sa… read more
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21. Mesa Verde Victim (National Park Mystery, #6)
By: Scott Graham
3.80
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Hounded by false accusations of murder, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family risk their lives … read more
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