Public Lands And The U.s. Economy

George M. Johnston is associate professor of natural resources at Eastern Oregon State College. Peter M. Emerson is director of the Economic Policy Department of The Wilderness Society.

• Westview Replica Editions -- Foreword -- Preface -- Three Perspectives on the Public Lands -- Public and Private Interests in the Federal Lands: Toward Conciliation -- The Public Interest in the Federal Lands and the Reagan Administration's Asset Management Program -- Access and Distributional Impacts of Public and Private Land Ownership -- A Property Rights Approach to Wilderness Management -- An Economist's Critique of Privatization -- The Wilderness System Isn't Broken and Doesn't Need Fixing -- Public Land Politics in the 1980s -- Federal-State Cooperation and Public Land Policy -- Timber Issues -- The Federal Preserve in the West: Environmental Champion or Economic Despoiler? -- Divestiture, Harvest Expansion and Economic Efficiency: The National Forests in the Early 1980s -- Community Stability and the Federal Lands -- Some Historical Trends in Timber Management -- Nonfuel Mineral Issues -- Better Management of Nonfuel Minerals on Federal Land: A Look at the Issues -- The Economic Significance of Mineral Resources -- Management of Non-fuel Minerals: A Mining Industry Perspective -- Mineral Facts and Fictions -- Rangeland Issues -- The Distribution of Benefits and Costs Associated with Public Rangelands -- Subsidization and Privatization of Federal Rangeland: A California Perspective -- Energy Resources Issues -- Energy Resources, Revenues and the Public Lands -- Explaining and Defending the Existing Federal Lands Energy Management System -- Oil Shale Problems and Issues -- Free Markets, States' Rights, and Federal Coal