War on the West: Government Tyranny on America's Great Frontier - Hardcover

Pendley, William Perry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089526482X ISBN 13: 9780895264824

Publisher: Regnery Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

War on the West reveals, for the first time, the startling and shocking details behind one of the nation's top news stories: the brewing Western revolt against the federal government.
The federal government, following the lead of environmental extremists, is increasingly using strong-arm tactics against Western land-owners and resource providers. Government agents have jailed ranchers for fencing their own land, placed the welfare of wildlife above the lives of humans, used federal laws and government lawyers to intimidate property owners into submission, and condemned much of the West to the devastation of a "nature's way" approach to land management.
War on the West lays out, issue by issue, the attack now underway on timber, mining, ranching, oil and gas exploration, tourism, and even the West's most important resource: water. With the dramatic stories of the brave men and women who have banded together in a grassroots movement to fight back, Pendley shows how the West's most threatened species - working men and women and their communities - are making a dramatic comeback.

About this title

About the Author:

William Perry Pendley is President and Chief Legal Officer of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a Denver-based public interest law firm.

From Publishers Weekly:

In his through-the-looking-glass assessment of the environmental state of the western U.S., Pendley, lawyer and former assistant to Interior Secretary James Watt, gets just about everything completely backwards. His absurd contention is that environmentalists, whom he consistently calls ``environmental extremists,'' and government officials (including those in the Bush administration) have banded together in a conspiracy to depopulate the West, keep visitors from our national parks and ``put an end to modern civilization.'' Chapters focus on logging, grazing, mining, water rights, tourism and the Endangered Species Act and abound with assertions that are either unsubstantiated or just plain incorrect. Cattle and sheep grazing on federal land has not improved habitat quality, and insufficient logging has not been responsible for large forest fires, regardless of how many times Pendley claims otherwise. The massive federal subsidies provided to ranchers, loggers and miners are treated as entitlements with no meaningful comment on their significance. The final chapter is a paean to the Wise Use movement, which conveniently omits any discussion of the well-documented violence it has encouraged against environmentalists.

Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 089526482X
• ISBN 13: 9780895264824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312