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This Land

How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West

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This Land

De: Christopher Ketcham
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A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West - and a plea for the protection of these last wild places

The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before.

Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the listener on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act - including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse - and investigates the destructive behavior of US Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists, and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations.

This Land is a colorful muckraking journey - part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair - exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage. The book ends with Ketcham's vision of ecological restoration for the American West: freeing the trampled, denuded ecosystems from the effects of grazing, enforcing the laws already in place to defend biodiversity, allowing the native species of the West to recover under a fully implemented Endangered Species Act, and establishing vast stretches of public land where there will be no development at all, not even for recreation.

Cover Photo courtesy of TWIG Media/Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

©2019 Christopher Ketcham (P)2019 Penguin Audio Aire libre y Naturaleza Ambiente Américas Ciencia Conservación Especies en Peligro de Extinción Estados Unidos Estatal y Local Naturaleza y Ecología Salvaje Oeste Viejo Oeste Public Lands

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"As Christopher Ketcham says so eloquently in these pages, the vast public lands are perhaps America's greatest legacy, a landscape of the scale necessary to help preserve the diversity of life on a hot planet in a tough century. That's why we need to pay such attention to the stories he tells of the threats they face." (Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?)

"Christopher Ketcham is a marvelously fresh and forceful voice, one unaffected by the squishy language and languid resistance of our grotesquely compromised (and well-funded) environmental organizations. Instructive and swiftly, smartly written, this book about the pillage and poisoning of our public lands reinvigorates writing as a force for outrage and change at the same time as it returns us to the clear-headed, big-hearted zeal of classic environmental works." (Joy Williams, author of The Florida Keys)

"As potent in its way as Silent Spring. This book will open your eyes to the greed and abuse destroying our public lands. Better yet, it will make you angry." (T. C. Boyle, author of Outside Looking In)
Beautifully Written • Well Researched • Strong Material • Impassioned Storytelling • Educational Content
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If you have, or will spend any time in the west you need to listen to this book. Incredible, lyrical and in many ways depressing.

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This book is excellent, both in its content and its narration. I highly recommend it for anyone who cares about our public lands. It is well organized and gives the reader a good understanding of the dysfunctional dynamics brought about by our exploitative economic system. Anyone who cares deeply about the plight of wild animals would benefit from listening. Especially meaningful for those of us who live in the western United States but relevant to all. Very well narrated by the author.

Probably the best book I have listened to

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Our public lands are on death row, and now we can explore some of  the details of a corrupt and greed-driven prosecution, moved by hypocrites and zealots who subvert our legal system and pervert the language of scripture to justify their personal gain, at the expense of our sacred public trust, and hopefully all just in a nick of time. These gloomy machinations are rolling away as we read on.


And I hope this is just the opening volley from this author, the Helen Prejean of our public lands and the endangered fauna that are facing down a certain death sentence. More needs to be dragged into the light by this dedicated author, who has doggedly investigated and so eloquently written on our behalf many heretofore unheralded facts and facets thus far. So please give him 5 stars everone, it's the best way to ensure another volume will be forthcoming.

Very well read. Thoroughly researched.

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A tough read but necessary for every remnant 60’s environmentalist that wants to understand a new generation of activism & how we lost the war.

Suddenly we have dropped Nature Conservancy from our donations

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I had to stop listening and just breathe several times with this book. I am aware of a great deal of the environmental damage and corruption in the United States and especially the West but to listen to the history laid out word by careful word, leaving no prisoners , is devastating, powerful, and enlightening. I feel a little wrung out, depressed and above all determined to do more than just donate to Sierra Club and pick up trash.

Very Very Powerful

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excellent job of relating public land debates with global warming and changing forest ecologies due to grazing, oil production and development

Ties multiple societal issues together

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Well researched, impassioned but not flowery or idealistic this book is critical for anyone who values public land and institutions that are in charge of its stewardship. Investigative journalism meets Edward Abbey to shed light on what is happening on our lands and what we need to do about it.

Finally a new voice to listen to

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this is a book every american needs to read. it is not a book that is fun to read. important books are not always fun to read

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I actually found it fascinating to hear this point of view. I love public lands and to an extent I can agree with him that they should be protected and not infringed on. His perspective of absolutism is where I feel bad for him.
Overall well written and read. He paints these elaborate pictures of his journeys and opinions quite eloquently. You'll leave this book feeling either fired up in one way or another, or like me, left feeling sorry for him.

Passionate but misguided man hates humans

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Wow what an incredible book I loved every last minute of this impassioned account of the demise of the western landscape. I have worked in the field as a Fish and Wildlife Biologist for the US Fish and Wildlife Service and this story has captured the ecology and beauty as well as the degradation from cattle grazing, logging, mining, motorized recreation tremendously well. The politics and policies, the economic troubles managing the landscape and the corporate interests that threaten this landscape. Hoorah for Christopher Ketcham and this brave, bold, and thorough account of this landscape. Thank you I will buy the book to have a hard copy that I can underline and mark up.

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