Includes bibliographical references and index.

Freedom and responsibility : what we can learn from the Wise Use Movement / Jon Roush -- Cloaked in a wise disguise / Thomas A. Lewis -- Stop the greens : business fights back by hook or by crook / Eve Pell -- Land mine / Margaret Kriz -- The "property rights" revolt : environmentalists fret as states pass Reagan-style takings laws / Marianne Lavelle -- Wise use : discouragements and clarifications / T.H. Watkins -- People for the West! : challenges and opportunities / Jim Baca -- Address to the Natural Resources Council of America / James Gustave Speth -- Taking back the rural West / Philip Brick -- Mapping common ground on public rangelands / William E. Riebsame and Robert G. Woodmansee -- Wise use in the West : the case of the Northwest timber industry / Tarso Ramos -- Wise use below the high-tide line : threats and opportunities / Carl Safina and Suzanne Iudicello -- Sagebrush rebellion II / Florence Williams -- Not all that glitters / Thomas Michael Power -- The takings issue / John D. Echeverria -- The value of land : seeking property rights solutions to public environmental concerns / Neil D. Hamilton -- The takings debate and federal regulatory programs / Sharon Dennis -- Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council : an enigmatic approach to the environmental regulation of land / Tim Searchinger -- "Absolute" rights : property and privacy / Mary Ann Glendon -- Jobs and the environment / John S. Gray III -- The wise use threat to American workers / Donald R. Judge -- Strategic overview of the environmental industry / Grant Ferrier -- The U.S. environmental industry and the global marketplace for environmental goods and services / Donald L. Connors, Michael D. Bliss, and Jack Archer -- Science, technology, environment, and competitiveness in a North American context / Linda K. Trocki -- Restructuring the timber economy / Henry H. Carey and Meria L. Loeks -- Winning and losing in environmental ethics / Holmes Rolston III -- Economic and health benefits of biodiversity / Thomas Eisner -- The Endangered Species Act : a commitment worth keeping / Randall D. Snodgrass -- The tragedy of the oceans / The Economist -- Taking on anti-environmentalists : step by step / Janet Ellis -- Building broad-based coalitions to oppose takings legislation / Dana B. Larsen -- Finding the ties that bind : coalitions with agriculture groups / Teresa Erickson -- Countering the resource abuse movement / Douglass North -- Working with the media / Jim Bernfield -- Wise use and the greater Yellowstone vision document : lessons learned / Robert Ekey -- Working journalists speak out on wise use / Society of Environmental Journalists.