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Article: Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands by Richard W. Behan, S29.95.(Review)
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- American Forests
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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This is Behan at his best--hard-hitting, challenging corporate and public institutions for plundering our public lands over 200 years. A respected natural resource scholar and past director of AMERICAN FORESTS Behan sets as his stage the "astonishing extent" of America's public lands: more than a million square miles. He decries their "dismal condition," and blames "corrupted" capitalism and "predatory politics" for an "ingenious, energetic, and sustained effort" to ...
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