In the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. This is Our Land documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups - in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee - revealing how quite ordinary citizens fought to solve environmental problems.

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

1   Introduction: Think Local, Act Local…Think Global

2   Coal Boom on the Plains

3   The Northern Plains Resource Council during the Environmental Decade

4   Citizen Environmental Activism in the Southwest: Tucson’s Southwest Environmental Service

5   Reining in the Smelters: The Fight For Clean Air in Southern Arizona

6   Citizen Environmental Activism in Appalachia: Save Our Cumberland Mountains

7   Dumping on Tennessee

8   Conclusion: Participation, Perseverance, and Rethinking Environmentalism

Bibliography

Index

CODY FERGUSON is an assistant professor of history at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas.