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This Contested Land
2022,2024
Overview
One woman's enlightening trek through the natural
histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen
national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii
This land is your land . When it comes to national
monuments, the sentiment could hardly be more fraught. Gold Butte
in Nevada, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico, Katahdin
Woods and Waters in Maine, Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and
California: these are among the thirteen natural sites McKenzie
Long visits in This Contested Land , an eye-opening
exploration of the stories these national monuments tell, the
passions they stir, and the controversies surrounding them
today.
Starting amid the fragrant sagebrush and red dirt of Bears Ears
National Monument on the eve of the Trump Administration's decision
to reduce the site by 85 percent, Long climbs sandstone cliffs, is
awed by Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings and is intrigued by
4,000-year-old petroglyphs. She hikes through remote pink canyons
recently removed from the boundary of Grand Staircase-Escalante,
skis to a backcountry hut in Maine to view a truly dark night sky,
snorkels in warm Hawaiian waters to plumb the meaning of marine
preserves, volunteers near the most contaminated nuclear site in
the United States, and witnesses firsthand the diverse forms of
devotion evoked by the Rio Grande. In essays both contemplative and
resonant, This Contested Land confronts an unjust past and
imagines a collaborative future that bears witness to these
regions' enduring Indigenous connections.
From hazardous climate change realities to volatile tensions
between economic development and environmental conservation,
practical and philosophical issues arise as Long seeks the
complicated and often overlooked-or suppressed-stories of these
incomparable places. Her journey, mindfully undertaken and movingly
described, emphasizes in clear and urgent terms the unique
significance of, and grave threats to, these contested lands.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Subject
Cultural property -- Protection -- United States
/ Environmental Conservation & Protection
/ Long, McKenzie -- Travel -- United States
/ National monuments -- United States
/ Natural areas -- United States
/ NATURE
/ NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection bisacsh
/ Nature conservation -- United States
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy bisacsh
/ Public Policy & Administration
/ TRAVEL
ISBN
9781517909826, 1517909821, 9781452967417, 1452967415
