Notes on a Shared Landscape: Making Sense of the American West

An unusual book which is part memoir, part critique of environmental policy making, part spiritual guide to just being in the west. Not, I would think, for most and difficult to read in places but very rewarding for people who truly love the west - or think they do.

Hard-fought set of essays about the American West. Worth working your way through Bayles double or triple negatives and complex sentence structure. Can be frustrating to the point of quitting in the first 1/3rd for me, but kept the faith. Glad to see it in print and hope more to come from this experienced environmentalist.

Notes on a Shared Landscape is a singular and important book, unlike anything I have experienced before. It's a seamless blend of personal and global, with an almost conversational, yet sophisticated writing style. It's about the Western United States only in the sense that the West was recently settled by Euro-Americans, and because the Author grew up there. But it's really about the interaction of humans and land everywhere, and is pertinent to everyone.