Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
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A geographer explains the politics and procedures behind renaming American places.
Approximately 400,000 bison roam the North American landscape today, of which nearly 90% are considered livestock.
Long-standing water-use agreements allocate more water than the river and its basin actually contain, forcing users to cut back and face future shortages as well.
Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not simple or quick, as President Trump is about to find out.
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Stout Polytechnic
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