The book details an objectives-based prescriptive model for resolving environmental disputes at all geographic scales. It describes over 100 methods and tools and then provides explanations and examples of how the tools might be used. It also details managment options and methods, sensitive to dispute scale and complexity.

The book presents a comprehensive presentation of why environmental disputes exist in America and Worldwide. It also offers models and insights for resolution.

A Deep Brown Crucible is the third book in a fiction series exploring the deleterious effects of environmental conflicts in America. The series follows the life of a character, Mill Meacham, ostensibly a fourth-generation Forest Service employee as she battles personal and professional adversity. The plot and sub-plots of the trilogy utilize Mill as symbolic of the 21st Century Forest Service and conservation movement in the U.S., beginning life in the 1970s and challenged by almost insurmountable forces while trying to come of age and make a difference. While A Deep Brown Crucible relies...