Featured Image: Cows and cow trashed lands Sonoran Desert NM Arizona © George Wuerthner By

Featured image: Escalante River, Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument © George

Featured image credit:  Witch Hazel, Hamamelis virginiana, © NFA We introduce The

Featured image: Cows and cow-trashed lands Sonoran Desert NM Arizona, © George Wuerthner By

Peregrine Falcon © Darren Burkey By Eileen Crist Book Review by John Miles Reading

Photo credit: Columbine Hondo Wilderness, New Mexico © John Miles The following

Down River: Into the Future of Water in the West, by Heather Hansman, The University

By Nathalie Pettorelli, Sarah Durant and Johan du Toit Reviewed by Vance Russell

By John W. Laundré Editors’ note: The following is adapted from the Preface of

Steven Davis, In Defense of Public Lands: The Case Against Privatization and Transfer.