John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

This award encourages and rewards American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is both interesting and attractive to lay readers.

Randall Wilson (Iowa Grad, 2000) of Gettysburg College for his book America’s Public Lands: From Yellowstone to Smokey Bear and Beyond, published by Rowman & Littlefield.

With this book, Randall Wilson has taken on topic that is central to our country’s existence – its public lands – and attempts to rethink an old and familiar story. He examines the contrast between viewing land as a commodity to be developed and land as nature to be preserved. This book leads the reader from the nation’s founding to the current era of land management issues shaped by debates over private use of public lands, ecosystem management, and climate change. This volume has a sweeping scope and is full of meticulously researched details but it is also clear and concise with accessible prose suited to public as well as scholarly audiences.

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