About the Book: The American West is portrayed as a place of rugged landscapes and endless opportunity. But the land is fragile, resources are finite, and space is at a premium. The essays of A Watershed Moment explore the tensions between a culture rooted in endless growth and personal freedom and the ecological, economic, and social constraints set by community values and the land itself. As Westerners come up against these limits, these essays highlight issues of sustainability central to the region’s future and to the nation’s as a whole. The contributors are policymakers, government employees, land and water managers, urban planners, biologists, tribal members, writers, and academics from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. The result is a compelling vision of place-based, policy-oriented sustainability across the West.

About the Author: Evelyn is a philosopher interested in ethics, justice, and decision-making for environmental conservation, land use, and sustainability. Her research has to do with environmental values, political theory in environmental policy, the epistemology of conservation science, and mobilizing philosophers to better address policy issues. The complexity of environmental decision-making has also led her to work on interdisciplinarity, especially interdisciplinary approaches that integrate humanities/social science with STEM research. In addition, she's written on epistemic contextualism, pragmatism, the history of analytic philosophy, scientific objectivity, STEM pedagogy, and forest history.