Writing the Wild: Nature, Culture, and American Literature

What Am I Bid for the American Wild?
by: Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Perspective. www.truthout.org

Bryce National Park in Utah. (Photo: Ron Niebrugge)

Check out Michael Winships acerbic expose on what the Bush administration is doing to American national wilderness areas in the last days before Obama takes office. Sadly, this kind of deregulation of public space, and opening wilderness areas like the one pictured above to oil and natural gas drilling (under so-called “leasing” of the land), will be very hard decisions for an Obama administration to change or reverse.