Includes information on blood diamonds, Bureau of Land Management, diamond mining and trade, environmental movement, forests, grazing policies, Greenpeace, land management, livestock industry, National Park Service, national parks, nonrenewable resources, United Nations, U.S. Forest Service, water, westward expansion, etc.

BACKGROUND AND HISTORY -- From the Dawn of History -- Colonial America -- An Overview of Natural Resource Issues and Conflicts -- Acquisition: 1781-1867 -- Disposal: 1781 -- Reservation: 1872 -- Custodial Management: 1897-1950 -- Intensive Management: 1950-1960 -- Consultation and Conflict: 1960- -- References -- PROBLEMS, CONTROVERSIES AND SOLUTIONS -- Minerals, Oil, and Natural Gas Exploration and Drilling -- Supply and Demand -- Extraction and Money -- Damage from Mining Activities -- Oil and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Protected Areas Policy -- Fee Demonstration Program -- Staffing and Infrastructure Maintenance -- Too Many Protected Areas? -- Rangeland Management -- Regulating the Range -- Subsidization of the Livestock Industry -- Environmental Impacts of Grazing -- Conflict Management on the Range -- Timber and Forests -- Maintaining a Sustainable Supply -- Protecting Old Growth Forests -- Collaboration Efforts -- References -- WORLDWIDE PERSPECTIVE -- Diamonds and Precious Metals -- Oil and Natural Gas Development -- Timber and Forest Destruction -- Water Resources and Scarcity -- References -- CHRONOLOGY -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES -- Ansel Adams -- Bruce Babbitt -- David Brower -- Robert Marion Clawson -- Bernard DeVoto -- Wayne Hage -- Julia Hill -- Andy Kerr -- J. Horace McFarland -- Chico Mendes -- Milford Muskett -- Joan Norman -- William Penn -- Sandra Postel -- Ken Saro-Wiwa -- Maurice Strong -- Nicola Temple -- Courtney White -- Terry Tempest Williams -- Howard Zahniser -- DATA AND DOCUMENTS -- Legislation -- National Park Service Organic Act -- Taylor Grazing Act -- Federal Land Policy and Management Act -- Reports -- U.S. General Accounting Office: Livestock Grazing -- Resolutions -- Excerpt, Memorial of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Behalf of a Proper Forest Policy -- Joint Resolution, World Federation of Diamond Bourses and International Diamond Manufacturers Association -- Preamble to the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme -- Bonn Ministerial Declaration -- Facts and Data -- U.S. Natural Resource Agencies -- National Landscape Conservation System -- National Park Visitation -- Ten Most Endangered Birds in America -- U.S. Most Endangered Wildlife Refuges U.S. Gold Prices -- Extent of Worldwide Forest and Wooded Land -- Gas and Oil Supplies -- Energy Use and Trends -- Water Use -- DIRECTORY OF ORGANIZATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS AND AGENCIES -- SELECTED PRINT AND NONPRINT SOURCES -- Books -- Monographs, U.S. and International Government Publications -- Articles -- CD-ROMs/DVD-ROMs/DVDs/Videos -- Glossary.