Book Description Contents
Book Description

One of the most serious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independent movement of small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations with a vested interest in preventing further environmental gains. Let the People Judge collects the writings of a wide range of thinkers on the Wise Use movement and the controversies that fuel the Wise Use debate.

Contents

Preface
Introduction - Freedom And Responsibility: What We Can Learn From The Wise Use Movement
PART I. The Wise Use And Property Rights Movements
-Cloaked In A Wise Disguise
-Stop The Greens - Business Fights Back By Hook Or By Crook
-Land Mine
-The ''property Rights'' Revolt - Environmentalists Fret As States Pass Reagan-style Takings Laws
PART II. Conservation Leaders Speak Out
-Wise Use - Discouragements And Clarifications
-People For The West! - Challenges And Opportunities
-Address To The Natural Resources Council Of America
-Taking Back The Rural West
PART III. Resource Conflicts
-Mapping Common Ground On Public Rangelands
-Wise Use In The West - The Case Of The Northwest Timber Industry
-Wise Use Below The High-tide Line - Threats And Opportunities
-Sagebrush Rebellion Ii
-Not All That Glitters
PART IV. The Takings Issue
-The Takings Issue
-The Value Of Land - Seeking Property Rights Solutions To Public Environmental Concerns
-The Takings Debate And Federal Regulatory Programs
-Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council - An Enigmatic Approach To The Environmental Regulation Of Land
-'Absolute'' Rights - Property And Privacy
PART V. The Economics Of Conservation
-Jobs And The Environment
-The Wise Use Threat To American Workers
-Strategic Overview Of The Environmental Industry
-The U.s. Environmental Industry And The Global Marketplace For Environmental Goods And Services
-Science, Technology, Environment, And Competitiveness In A North American Context
-Restructuring The Timber Economy
PART VI. People And Wildlife
-Winning And Losing In Environmental Ethics
-Economic And Health Benefits Of Biodiversity
-The Endangered Species Act - A Commitment Worth Keeping
-The Tragedy Of The Oceans
PART VII. Effective Activism
-Taking On Anti-environmentalists - Step By Step
-Building Broad-based Coalitions To Oppose Takings Legislation
-Finding The Ties That Bind - Coalitions With Agriculture Groups
-Countering The Resource Abuse Movement
PART VIII. Message And The Media
-Working With The Media
-Wise Use And The Greater Yellowstone Vision Document - Lessons Learned
-Working Journalists Speak Out On Wise Use - Society Of Environmental Journalists
Index