Reviewed Work: Locking up the Range: Federal Land Controls and Grazing by Gary D. Libecap

Keywords

Federal land, Land Policy, Grazing, Range, Land Use

Abstract

Professor Gary Libecap has written a short, readable, and useful book about the long-standing conflicts between regulating bureaucrats and regulated stockmen over the terms of grazing the public lands in the West. Its principal theme is that vacillating and often arbitrary policies, molded largely by the self-interest of the Interior Department and its agencies over the decades, have produced a chaotic environment in which it has been very difficult for ranchers to utilize the range resources efficiently. The work should excite historians particularly, as Libecap traces the major developments in the relationship between the ranchers and the Department of Interior over more th

Original Publication Citation

Review of book Locking up the Range by Gary D. Libecap, Agricultural History, Vol. 56, No. 4, Oct. 1982, pp. 731-733.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

1982-10

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/5094

Publisher

Agricultural History

Language

English

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Economics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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