Committee Prints

Committee Prints
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1504
Release: 1971
Genre:
ISBN:

Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents

Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1282
Release: 1973
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

Who Controls Public Lands?

Who Controls Public Lands?
Author: Christopher McGrory Klyza
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0807862533

In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time. According to Klyza, understanding the different philosophies that gave rise to each policy regime is crucial to reforming public-lands policy in the future. Klyza begins by delineating how prevailing policy philosophies over the course of the last century have shaped each of the three land-use patterns he discusses. In mining, the model was economic liberalism, which mandated privatization of public lands; in forestry, it was technocratic utilitarianism, which called for government ownership and management of land; and in grazing, it was interest-group liberalism, in which private interests determined government policy. Each of these philosophies held sway in the years during which policy for that particular resource was formed, says Klyza, and continues to animate it even today.