Nonetheless, it was not federal legislation that provoked the “Sagebrush Rebellion.” It was the policies of the Carter administration. Carter viewed himself as an environmentalist and staffed ...
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed James G. Watt Secretary of the Interior. Riding the winds of the Sagebrush Rebellion—the states’ rights movement that sought to take back control of federal ...
He is the author of Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion and Environmental Politics; and co-editor of A Wolf in the Garden: the Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate.