This Contested Land - The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America's National Monuments

One woman-s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii-now available in paperbackThis land is your land. When it comes to national monuments, the sentiment could hardly be more fraught. Gold Butte in Nevada, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks in New Mexico, Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine, Cascade-Siskiyou in Oregon and California: these are among the thirteen natural sites McKenzie Long visits in This Contested Land, an eye-opening exploration of the stories these national monuments tell, the passions they stir, and the controversies surrounding them today. -Starting amid the fragrant sagebrush and red dirt of Bears Ears National Monument on the eve of the Trump Administration-s decision to reduce the site by 85 percent, Long climbs sandstone cliffs, is awed by Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings and is intrigued by 4,000-year-old petroglyphs. She hikes through remote pink canyons recently remove