At Odds with Progress: Americans and Conservation

by Bret Wallach

A Maine potato farmer struggles to stay in business while maintaining the productivity of his fields. . . . A forester in Tennessee oversees government land whose most important use today is for recreation. . . . Agribusiness reigns in Washington state's Columbia Basin where Franklin D. Roosevelt once envisioned a utopia of small farms. . . . The Texas chapter of the Sierra Club lobbies successfully against water importation to the Panhandle. . ...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816509174
• ISBN13: 9780816509171
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Very interesting and informative

Wallach brings a great perspective on Americans and conservation through his 'three disguises.' As an aspiring environmental engineer I found the book very interesting, and at the same time learned a great deal.