Description: DeVoto's West: History, Conservation, and the Public Good addresses many issues, including the plundering of resources by absentee eastern corporations, Westerners' conflicted relationship to exploitation, and the degradation of the national parks.DeVoto's West collects the best of Bernard DeVoto's conservation pieces for the first time. It will introduce a new generation to prose that has retained its relevance and remains a remarkably current and timely argument for protecting public lands.
Review Quotes: "Every dedicated environmentalist should read this book. It contains a crucial chapter of our history. At the end of World War II, the conservation movement championed by the two Roosevelt presidents was in disarray and had lost its voice. In the years after, Bernard DeVoto provided that voice, through the Easy Chair columns that are reproduced in DeVoto's West."