Randal O'Toole

His book Reforming the Forest Service built on his experience during this effort, and proposed a number of free-market solutions to management of U.S. public land and timber.

He has written analyses of the usage and development plans of a number of U.S. national forests, working with state environmental agencies and other groups.

[citation needed] In the 1990s, O'Toole emerged as an outspoken critic of New Urbanist design and smart growth strategies[10] after learning in 1995 of a county plan to rezone his neighborhood to allow higher density and mixed use development.

[16] American Nightmare examines the history of housing in America and argues that zoning and, more recently, growth-management planning represents efforts by the middle- and upper-classes to separate themselves from the working class.

He currently runs a web site, Streamliner Memories, to share scanned copies of his personal library of railroadiana.