New York: Viking, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - An in-depth look at the battle over the fate of the public lands in the American West - and a plea for the protection of these last wild places. "Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse - and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry.. . Part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair, this exposes the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage." Map, notes, bibliography, index. 422 pp. ISBN: 978-0735220980.