Knowing the wolf, tending the garden / Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley
Part 1: The Land-rights
environmental debate. Overcoming ideology / Ron Arnold
The Pristine silence of leaving it all alone / Donald Snow
Property rights movement: how it began and where it is headed / Nancie G. Marzulla
Environmentalism: the real movement to protect property rights / Glenn P. Sugameli
Protecting community stability and local economies: opportunities for local government influence in federal decision- and policy-making processes / Karen Budd-Falen
The County supremacy movement: mendacious myth marketing / Scott W. Reed
Part 2: Analyzing the debate. Environmentlaists and the new political climate: strategies for the future / Gus diZerega
Taking the land rights movement seriously / Kirk Emerson
The Logic of competing information campaigns: conflict over old growth and the spotted owl / Jonathan I. Lange
War of words / Jon Christensen

Part 3: New directions. Wising up to the wise use movement / Karl Hess, Jr.
The Economic role of environmental quality in western public lands / Ray Rasker and Jon Roush
Wise use movement and the national parks / John Freemuth
End of the progressive era: toward decentralization of the federal lands / Robert H. Nelson
Part 4: Coming back into the country. Community and the politics of place / Daniel Kemmis
Settling America: the concept of place in environmental politics / Mark Sagoff
Peril on common ground: the Applegate experiment / Brett KenCairn
Tough towns: the challenge of community-based conservation / Graham Chisholm
The Wilderness killers / Tom Wolf
Epilogue: taming the wolf / Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley.