Skillen rises to the challenge in this study ... a major contribution of Skillen's analysis: his success at connecting local public-lands issues with divisions in national politics and the underlayment of the culture wars that mark rural-versus-urban tensions.
James R. Skillen is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Calvin University. He teaches at the intersection of environmental history, law, and science, including regular field courses on federal lands in California, Nevada, and Oregon. He is author of The Nation's Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West and Federal Ecosystem Management: Its Rise, Fall, and
Afterlife.