Our Common Ground: A History of America's Public Lands
ISBN: 9780300262841
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Yale University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Environmental Politics;

The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.


John Leshy became deeply involved with America's public lands soon after his graduation from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He was solicitor for the U.S. Department of Interior from 1993 to 2001, is co-author of the standard textbook on public land and resources law (Federal Public Land and Resources Law), and has written and lectured widely on public lands. He is emeritus professor, University of California Hastings College of Law, San Francisco.
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