A spiritual and cultural treasure and a multi-trillion-dollar asset, public land must be protected.
Headwaters Economics
Independent Nonpartisan Research
Steven Davis
Steven Davis is a professor of political science and environmental studies at Edgewood College in Madison, WI, where he has taught since 1994. He is also the author of the book In Defense of Public Lands: The Case Against Privatization and Transfer (Temple University Press, 2018), from which all figures and statistics cited in this essay are taken.