Char Miller
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Public Lands, Public Debates
A Century of Controversy
By Char Miller
Oregon State University Press
Nineteen essays from an environmental historian that explore the U.S. system of public lands, the subject of historical struggle and contemporary debate.
Fluid Arguments
Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict
Edited by Char Miller
The University of Arizona Press
River Basins of the American West
A High Country News Reader
By Char Miller
Oregon State University Press
Water in the 21st-Century West
A High Country News Reader
By Char Miller
Oregon State University Press
Toward a Natural Forest
The Forest Service in Transition (A Memoir)
By Jim Furnish; Foreword by Char Miller
Oregon State University Press
The Forest Service stumbled in responding to a wave of lawsuits from environmental groups in the late 20th Century—a phenomenon best symbolized by the spotted owl controversy that shut down logging on public forests in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. The agency was brought to its knees, pitted between a powerful timber industry that had been having its way with the national forests for decades, and organized environmentalists who believed public lands had been abused and deserved better stewardship. Toward a Natural Forest offers an insider’s view of this tumultuous time in the history of the Forest Service, presenting twin tales of transformation, both within the agency and within the author’s evolving environmental consciousness. Drawing on the author’s personal experience and his broad professional knowledge, Toward a Natural Forest illuminates the potential of the Forest Service to provide strong leadership in global conservation efforts. Those interested in our public lands—environmentalists, natural resource professionals, academics, and historians—will find Jim Furnish’s story deeply informed, thought-provoking, and ultimately inspiring.
The Nature of Hope
Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change
Edited by Char Miller and Jeff Crane
University Press of Colorado
The critical implications that emerge from these stories about ecological activism are crucial to understanding the essential role that protecting the environment plays in sustaining the health of civil society.
Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene
Science, Policy, and Practice
University Press of Colorado
On Strawberry Hill
The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling
By Paula Ivaska Robbins; Foreword by Char Miller
University of Alabama Press
While not a biography of legendary American forester and conservationist Gifford Pinchot, On Strawberry Hill: The Transcendent Love of Gifford Pinchot and Laura Houghteling explores a vital and transformative facet of his personal life that, until now, has remained relatively unknown.