📗 Libro en inglés THIS CONTESTED LAND

One woman s enlightening trek through the natural histories cultural stories and present perils of thirteen national monuments from Maine to Hawaii now available in paperbackThis land is your land When it comes to national monuments the sentiment could hardly be more fraught Gold Butte in Nevada Organ Mountains Desert Peaks in New Mexico Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine Cascade Siskiyou in Oregon and California these are among the thirteen natural sites McKenzie Long visits in This Contested Land an eye opening exploration of the stories these national monuments tell the passions they stir and the controversies surrounding them today Starting amid the fragrant sagebrush and red dirt of Bears Ears National Monument on the eve of the Trump Administration s decision to reduce the site by 85 percent Long climbs sandstone cliffs is awed by Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings and is intrigued by 4 000 year old petroglyphs She hikes through remote pink canyons recently removed from the boundary of Grand Staircase Escalante skis to a backcountry hut in Maine to view a truly dark night sky snorkels in warm Hawaiian waters to plumb the meaning of marine preserves volunteers near the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States and witnesses firsthand t