Legislation is too late, so it must delineate best practices for future enforcement by local, state and federal governments. The urgency to conserve our environment is the moral of “Stand Up that Mountain: The Battle to Save One Small Community in the Wilderness Along the Appalachian Trail” by Jay Leutze. He said, “The grand American experiment is a lesson in building a country, in stripping a land and turning it into taxable assets,” a global story.