Parks and Politics: Saving the American Environment - Patricia Limerick [podcast 51 min 41 sec]

A wide-ranging agency charged with both protecting land and promoting its use, the Department of the Interior implements federal law over millions of acres of land and mediates the claims of environmental, mining, foresting, farming, and ranching interests, among others. Bureaucracies may be boring, Limerick argues, but studying their impact on history is not.