SAVING POINT REYES; How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action
Published by University Press of Kansas, 2023
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- Title
- SAVING POINT REYES; How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action
- Author
- Warburg, Gerald Felix
- Publisher
- University Press of Kansas
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Softcover
- ISBN 10
- 0700635440
- ISBN 13
- 9780700635443
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing.
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- 0.95 pounds
Saving Point Reyes is an environmental policy history that draws on archival materials, oral histories, and new interviews with veteran federal policymakers to understand how legislative bargaining and grassroots politics succeeded in achieving this victory for environmental protection. Gerald Warburgoffers the first political history focused on the battles to preserve the unique series of fragile ecosystems that surround San Francisco and the definitive study of exactly how Point Reyes was saved.
Most accounts of this story only focus on the 1962 bill that created the PRNS on 53,000 acres of private lands just north of San Francisco. But that was just the first act in the saga. The passing of the bill only established the park in theory, and the government only controlled 123 acres at Point Reyes. In the months following the signing ceremony, all three of the House, Senate, and White House champions of the Point Reyes legislation died, leaving the PRNS without the leadership necessary to secure the funding to purchase the rest of the land. What followed was an epic public policy battle to save Point Reyes. Local grassroots lobbying organizations arose to advance the cause of PRNS and other environmental campaigns, and their victory in 1970 laid the foundation for future environmental activism. With this new funding, the PRNS expanded to over 71,000 acres, which then grew to 87,000 acres in 1972 with the creation of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
The legislative bargaining and grassroots politics in the fight to preserve Point Reyes helped create a tipping point, profoundly altering the national environmental movement. Warburg’s deeply researched case study of NGO activism and congressional action is developed through a compelling narrative that offers specific lessons learned and hope for future environmental challenges, from climate policy to public lands preservation.
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About the Author
Gerald Warburg has served as Professor of Public Policy and Assistant Dean at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville where he teaches seminars in the Master of Public Policy program on legislative strategy and best practices for NGO leaders. A faculty affiliate of Batten’s Center for Effective Lawmaking, he previously served as a legislative assistant to Jonathan Bingham of New York and Alan Cranston of California, members of the U.S. House and Senate leadership. He has taught courses at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communications, Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, and for his alma maters of Hampshire College and Stanford University. He is the author of numerous works about public policymaking, including Conflict and Consensus: The Struggle Between Congress and the President Over Foreign Policymaking and Dispatches From the Eastern Front: A Political Education from the Nixon Years to the Age of Obama. He was born just north of San Francisco at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, and lived in several Marin County towns near Point Reyes National Seashore in California.
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