Dan Dagget, with Photography by Tom Bean
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Excerpt from Introduction:
You Can't Have Your Cake Unless You Eat It, Too
On Duel-ism; Living Like Bees, Beavers, and Wolves; Using Alien Solutions to Earthly Problems; Becoming Native Again
"The Argument over how we should live in relation to the rural and remote lands of the American West hasn't changed much in more than a century. John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club and father of the modern environmental movement, said in the late nineteenth century that we should reduce our impact on those lands as much as possible and preserve and protect all that we can. Most certainly, Muir and his followers insist, we should protect as much as possible of that which has remained relatively untainted by human alteration-the wilderness, the wildlands.

"Others have maintained, on the other hand, that it is our right to use whatever we choose because God created it for us or merely because there is no good reason not to. Still others, the middle-of-the-roaders, say 'it would be nice if we could protect everything, but we've got to be realists...' They concede the high road to the preservationists but turn the dispute into a struggle of idealism versus realism, the moral versus the practical, small-is-beautiful versus more-is-better."

Contents:

• Introduction - You Can't Have Your Cake Unless You Eat It, Too
• Pink Panthers and Lost Tribes
• Evidence of Gardeners in Eden
• Echoes of Eden - Beyond Symbiosis to Synergy
• Droughtbusters
• Lub-Dub
• Learning on the Fringe
• Return of the Natives
• Eden in Flames
• The Economics of Eden
• Building a New Economy for Eden
• Becoming Native Again - Toward a New Environmentalism
• Epilogue