Return of the wild: the future of our natural lands / edited by Ted Kerasote.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Ted Kerasote -- PART I - OUR WILDERNESS HERITAGE -- Mapping Wildlands -- How the Wildlands Map Was Produced -- John McComb -- The Wildlands of the United States -- The U.S. Road Network -- A Brief Illustrated History of Wilderness Time -- Douglas W Scott -- American Indians and the Wilderness -- Vine Deloria, Jr. -- The First Conservationists -- Chris Madson -- PART II - THE HUMAN LANDSCAPE -- "Gifts of Nature" in an Economic World -- Thomas Michael Power -- Between Towns and Wilderness: Protecting the Buffer Zones -- Florence Williams -- The Politics of Protecting Wild Places -- Mike Matz -- Christianity and Wild Places -- Steven Bouma-Prediger -- Movers and Shakers in the Christian -- Environmental Movement -- Steven Bouma-Prediger -- Working with Faith-Based Organizations -- Suellen Lowry -- A Gallery of Wild Places -- PART III - WILDLIFE AND WILDLANDS -- The Wild and Its New Enemies -- Jack Turner -- Should Wilderness Be Managed? -- Michael E. Soule -- Marketing the Image of the Wild -- Hal Herring -- The Once and Future Grizzly -- Todd Wilkinson -- PART IV - HEART OF THE WILD -- Joined Souls -- Richard Nelson -- Appendix -- Wilderness Act of 1964 -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.