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| The seeds of the rapacious exploitation of the American West lie in the popular myths about the region's history, but there's not very much real history within those myths. {mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/12-30-08.mp3{/mp3remote} | |
Two of the three co-authors of The American West at Risk, Howard Wilshire and Jane Neilson, are Sebastopol residents. Wilshire (left) was a U. S. Geological Survey research geologist for thirty-five years and now is Board Chairman of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
Nielson was a U. S. Geological Survey research geologist for twenty-five years and now is President of the Sebastopol Water Information Group.
The third co-author, Richard Hazlett, is Professor of Geology and the coordinator of the Environmental Analysis Program at Pomona College.
| | While popular histories romanticize the "winning of the west," we now must make some hard policy decisions to keep from losing it. {mp3remote}http://media.krcb.org/audio/nbr/12-31-08.mp3{/mp3remote} At left, huge deposits of mining wastes fill the landscape near Yerrington, Nevada. Below, craters from atomic bomb tests further south in the Nevada desert. |
The authors have developed an extensive website with photos, updates, extra chapters, quotations and other materials at LosingTheWest.com
