{"product_id":"the-size-of-the-risk-histories-of-multiple-use-in-the-great-basin-paperback-softback-9780806193137","title":"The Size of the Risk; Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin (Paperback \/ softback) 9780806193137","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Size of the Risk\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLeisl Carr Childers (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780806193137\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 20 b\u0026amp;w illus., 7 maps\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLeisl Carr Childers has written a sweeping study of Nevada’s 12 million–acre Great Basin and the problems and promise of grazing, mining, recreation, and water policies on western public lands. From mushroom clouds to mustangs, Nevada’s Great Basin has been ground zero for multiple use land management. With \u003ci\u003eThe Size of the Risk, \u003c\/i\u003ea vast sagebrush sea has found its contemporary environmental historian.\" - Andrew Gulliford, author of \u003ci\u003eBoomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale \u003c\/i\u003eand editor of \u003ci\u003eOutdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant in conception and execution, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSize of the Risk\u003c\/i\u003e remaps the Great Basin, gives voice to its peoples, and reveals the rich complexities of this misunderstood environment. In Leisl Carr Childers’s able hands, mushroom clouds and mustangs share a dynamic and contested landscape where the ideal of multiple use faced some of its toughest tests. Excellent and important.\" - Andrew G. Kirk, author of \u003ci\u003eCounterculture Green:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Great Basin, a stark and beautiful desert filled with sagebrush deserts and mountain ranges, is the epicenter for public lands conflicts. Arising out of the multiple, often incompatible uses created throughout the twentieth century, these struggles reveal the tension inherent within the multiple use concept, a management philosophy that promises equitable access to the region’s resources and economic gain to those who live there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Multiple use was originally conceived as a way to legitimize the historical use of public lands for grazing without precluding future uses, such as outdoor recreation, weapons development, and wildlife management. It was applied to the Great Basin to bring the region, once seen as worthless, into the national economic fold. Land managers, ranchers, mining interests, wilderness and wildlife advocates, outdoor recreationists, and even the military adopted this ideology to accommodate, promote, and sanction a multitude of activities on public lands, particularly those overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. Some of these uses are locally driven and others are nationally mandated, but all have exacted a cost from the region’s human and natural environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Size of the Risk\u003c\/i\u003e, Leisl Carr Childers shows how different constituencies worked to fill the presumed “empty space” of the Great Basin with a variety of land-use regimes that overlapped, conflicted, and ultimately harmed the environment and the people who depended on the region for their livelihoods. She looks at the conflicts that arose from the intersection of an ever-increasing number of activities, such as nuclear testing and wild horse preservation, and how Great Basin residents have navigated these conflicts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Carr Childers’s study of multiple use in the Great Basin highlights the complex interplay between the state, society, and the environment, allowing us to better understand the ongoing reality of living in the American West.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551754285336,"sku":"9780806193137","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-size-of-the-risk-histories-of-multiple-use-in-the-great-basin-paperback-softback-9780806193137","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}