Former WOC Director Publishes Book

University of Wyoming law professor Debra Donahue, who served as WOC’s executive Director from 1983-85, has published a provocative new book on public-lands grazing. The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversitydescribes the federal grazing program, which costs far more to administer than it generates in revenues, as the cause of potentially irreversible damage to native wildlife and vegetation throughout the West. The Western Range Revisited proposes a strategy for conserving native biological diversity on federal rangelands, based chiefly on removing livestock from large tracts of arid BLM lands in 10 western states, including Wyoming.

Drawing from range ecology, conservation biology, law and economics, Donahue examines the history of the federal grazing policy and the current debate on federal multiple-use policies and changing priorities for our public lands. Donahue use existing laws and regulations, historical documents, economic statistics and current scientific thinking to make her case for a land-management strategy that has been, until now, "unthinkable."

The Western Range Revisited is available in hard cover for $47.95 at bookstores or through the University of Oklahoma Press, 4100 28th Avenue NW, Norman, OK 73069, (405) 325-2291 or 6531.