Review: The size of the risk: Histories of multiple use in the Great Basin by Leisl Carr Childers

In The Size of the Risk, Leisl Carr Childers chronicles the changing ways in which public lands of the Great Basin have been managed from the latter half of the nineteenth century through the late 1970s. The main focus is the State of Nevada, which constitutes the core of the Great Basin. Rather than proceeding chronologically, the book is organized by the uses to which lands were put, including grazing of cattle and sheep, weapons testing by the military, parks and recreation, and grazing of wild mustangs.

Review info: The size of the risk: Histories of multiple use in the Great Basin. By Leisl Carr Childers, 2015. ISBN: 9780806152530, 320pp.