James R. Skillen is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Calvin University. He teaches at the intersection of environmental history, law, and science, including regular field courses on federal lands in California, Nevada, and Oregon. He is author of The Nation's Largest Landlord: The Bureau of Land Management in the American West and Federal Ecosystem Management: Its Rise, Fall, and Afterlife.

"This is an excellent analysis of the dynamics of anti-government sentiment in many western states." -- R. Heineman, emeritus, Alfred University, CHOICE

"Skillen rises to the challenge in this study ... a major contribution of Skillen's analysis: his success at connecting local public-lands issues with divisions in national politics and the underlayment of the culture wars that mark rural-versus-urban tensions." -- William D. Rowley, Nevada State Historical Quarterly

"This Land Is My Land is a sharply written, fair-minded examination of radical, anti-government conservatism in the American West. It explains the sometimes befuddling antics of Cliven Bundy and his family. More importantly, it explains why those antics received so much attention and amplification by the institutions and media of the American right." -Jefferson Decker, Rutgers University and author of The Other Rights Revolution

"Dr. Skillen has thoroughly captured the complexities, politics, and passions of federal land management issues. Throughout my 36-year Forest Service career, I dealt with these issues as a field practitioner, a community leader, and finally as an agency leader in Washington, DC. I commend this book for giving important, insightful context to today's and tomorrow's federal land issues." -Joel D. Holtrop, US Forest Service, Deputy Chief, retired

"There has always been hostility in the American West towards the federal government and especially the agencies charged with the complexity of managing the federal public lands for all Americans. Many of us out here are familiar, perhaps too familiar, with incidents like the Bundy rebellions. Western rebellion today has bled into other nonwestern rebellions against our government, against those who are different, against the very things that mitigate against a divided nation. James Skillen has provided, in This Land is My Land, a way to navigate the complexity of what is going on at this time in America. As important, there are guideposts pointing towards thinking about how we might overcome some of that divisiveness, allowing us to work more closely together on our public lands and elsewhere." -John Freemuth, Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands, and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University

"This Land is My Land provides some much-needed clarity to understanding what happened at Bunkerville and Malheur in the mid-2010s and demonstrates why we need to pay attention. In clear and compelling prose, James Skillen takes readers on a journey from the Sagebrush Rebellion of the late-1970s and 1980s, through the War for the West in the 1990s and the Patriot Rebellion in the second decade of the twenty-first century. He deploys well-researched and expertly-sourced historical context and a clarity of thought that brings these unsettling events into focus. Historians of public lands and the American West, scholars of conservative politics and the environment, and readers who still have questions about events at Bunkerville and Malheur will find this a highly-satisfying contribution and a touchstone for future conversations." -Leisl Carr Childers, Assistant Professor, Colorado State University