Public Lands

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    • How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West
    • By: Christopher Ketcham
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ketcham
    • Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West - and a plea for the protection of these last wild places....

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    • An Epic Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of America's Public Lands
    • By: Mark Kenyon
    • Narrated by: Mark Kenyon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,190 ratings
    • From prominent outdoorsman and nature writer Mark Kenyon comes an engrossing reflection on the past and future battles over our most revered landscapes - America’s public lands....

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    • Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West
    • By: Betsy Gaines Quammen
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts both law and democracy....

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    • Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
    • By: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
    • Narrated by: Stephanie Land
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,708 ratings
    • At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....

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    • John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands
    • By: John Clayton
    • Narrated by: Richard Powers
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • This dynamic examination traces the lives of two of the most influential figures - and their dueling approaches - on America’s natural landscape....

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    • By: Steven Davis
    • Narrated by: Marlin May
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized - or at least, radically reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented arguments....

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    • Climate Change and the Unthinkable
    • By: Amitav Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Shridhar Solanki
    • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability - at the level of literature, history, and politics - to grasp the scale and violence of climate change....

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    • Chasing Water and Dust Across California
    • By: Mark Arax
    • Narrated by: Mark Arax
    • Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 245 ratings
    • A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil - the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought....

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    • An Immigrant's Manifesto
    • By: Suketu Mehta
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • A timely argument for why the US and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants....

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    • How We Can Fight Poverty and Climate Chaos
    • By: Audrea Lim
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • An eye-opening examination of how treating land as a source of profit has a massive impact on racial inequality and the housing, gentrification, and environmental crises.

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    • Stories from America's Most Important Public Lands
    • By: Greg M. Peters
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A complete look at America’s National Forests—their triumphs, challenges, controversies, and vital programs—and the dedicated people who keep them alive....

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    • Reports from a Divided Nation
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • Here they are, the 2000s, and Barbara Ehrenreich subjects them to the most biting and incisive satire of her career....

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    • How the Bundy Family Hijacked Public Lands, Outfoxed the Federal Government, and Ignited America's Patriot Militia Movement
    • By: John Temple
    • Narrated by: Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • “IT’S TIME! They have my cattle and now they have one of my boys. Range War begins tomorrow at Bundy Ranch.” These words, pounded out on a laptop at Cliven Bundy’s besieged Nevada ranch on April 6, 2014, ignited a new American revolution....

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    • The Untold, True Story of America's Middle Class
    • By: Jim Tankersley
    • Narrated by: Jim Tankersley, Angelo Di Loreto
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • For over a decade, Jim Tankersley has been on a journey to understand what the hell happened to the world's greatest middle-class success story - the post-World-War-II boom that faded into decades of stagnation and frustration for American workers....

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    • The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments
    • By: McKenzie Long
    • Narrated by: McKenzie Long
    • Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • One woman's enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments....

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    • Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
    • By: Greg King
    • Narrated by: Galen Osier
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In this definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, journalist and famed redwood activist Greg King examines how investors and a growing US economy drove the timber industry to cut down all but 4 percent of the original two-million-acre redwood ecosystem....

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    • How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
    • By: Jason Vuic
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s....

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    • A History of America's Public Lands
    • By: John D. Leshy
    • Narrated by: Scott Carrico
    • Length: 28 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • America’s public lands include more than 600 million acres of forests, plains, mountains, wetlands, deserts, and shorelines. In this book, John Leshy, a leading expert in public lands policy, discusses the key political decisions that led to this, beginning at the very founding of the nation.

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    • Fly Fishing and Public Lands in the American West
    • By: Quinn Grover
    • Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Longtime fly fisherman Quinn Grover had contemplated the “why” of his fishing identity before, more recently, becoming focused on the “how” of it. He realized he was a dedicated fly fisherman, in large part, because public lands and public waterways in the West made it possible....

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