An excellent follow-on to Ana Maria Spagna's 'Reclaimers,' although Lippard's book focuses on how artists attempt to make sense of land use in the American West, and how they document and publicize human outrages against the land. Every page includes a photograph by an artist or of an artist's work in the West. Like Spagna, Lippard spends a lot of time exploring the greedy actions and inadvertent mistakes that have scarred western landscapes, but Lippard's call to action is for artists. "Where devastated landscapes provide fodder for photographic advocacy and raw materials for land art, the next hopeful step--in tandem with progressive land use politics--is a focus on actual recycling, reclamation, or remediation," she writes. "There are hundreds of exhausted sites littering the national landscape, waiting to be made meaningful: unsightly, dangerous quarries and mines, clearcut forests, slag heaps, mine shafts, trampled riparian areas, piles of hazardous waste leaking into our vulnerable waterways, and overgrazed pastures" (176-177). Though she acknowledges that so many of us live in the virtual world, she optiomistically depends on the fact that we reside in the local and the geographical world, and that we'll feel compelled to take care of it, all historical evidence to the contrary.