About Island Press -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Freedom and Responsibility: What We Can Learn from the Wise Use Movement -- Part I: The WIse Use and Property Rights Movements -- Cloaked in a Wise Disguise -- Stop the Greens: Business Fights Back by Hook or by Crook -- Land Mine -- The "Property Rights" Revolt: Environmentalists Fret as States Pass Reagan-Style Takings Laws -- Part II: Conservation Leaders Speak Out -- Wise Use: Discouragements and Clarifications -- People for the West!: Challenges and Opportunities -- Address to the Natural Resources Council of America -- Taking Back the Rural West -- Part III: Resource Conflicts -- Mapping Common Ground on Public Rangelands -- Wise Use in the West: The Case of the Northwest Timber Industry -- Wise Use below the High-Tide Line: Threats and Opportunities -- Sagebrush Rebellion II -- Not All That Glitters -- Part IV: The Takings Issue -- The Takings Issue -- The Value of Land: Seeking Property Rights Solutions to Public Environmental Concerns -- The Takings Debate and Federal Regulatory Programs -- Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council : An Enigmatic Approach to the EnvironmentalRegulation of Land -- "Absolute" Rights: Property and Privacy -- Part V: The Economics of Conservation -- Jobs and the Environment -- The Wise Use Threat to American Workers -- Strategic Overview of the Environmental Industry -- The U.S. Environmental Industry and the Global Marketplace for Environmental Goods and Services -- Science, Technology, Environment, and Competitiveness in a North American Context -- Restructuring the Timber Economy -- Part VI: People and Wildlife -- Winning and Losing in Environmental Ethics -- Economic and Health Benefits of Biodiversity -- The Endangered Species Act: A Commitment Worth Keeping -- The Tragedy of the Oceans -- Part VII: Effective Activism.

Taking on Anti-Environmentalists: Step by Step -- Building Broad-Based Coalitions to Oppose Takings Legislation -- Finding the Ties That Bind: Coalitions with Agriculture Groups -- Countering the Resource Abuse Movement -- Part VIII: Message and the Media -- Working with the Media -- Wise Use and the Greater Yellowstone Vision Document: Lessons Learned -- Working Journalists Speak Out on Wise Use -- About the Authors -- Index -- Island Press Board of Directors 1995.