Issue 2

Introduction of Secretary Jewell as Keynote Speaker Martz Winter Public Lands Symposium Getches-Wilkinson Center March 1, 2019 John Leshy, who served eight years as Interior Department Solicitor under Bruce Babbitt, …

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Introduction Since the 1970s, Indian policy has been guided by a federal commitment to tribal self-governance. The exact contours of this policy differ, but at a minimum, it is supposed …

Read more “Decolonization: Treaties, Resource Use, and Environmental Conservation”

The major federal public land management agencies (the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Park Service, Fish & Wildlife Service, and Department of Defense) have increasingly adopted a language that …

Read more “Ecosystem services and Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution in Natural Resources Management”

Introduction The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is among the strongest biodiversity protection laws anywhere in the world.[2] Its animating principle is that we, as a society, should do whatever it …

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Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst. . . . The national park idea, the best idea we ever had. –Wallace Stegner[2] [P]arks …

Read more “Not yet America’s Best Idea: Law, Inequality, and Grand Canyon National Park”

The United States’ infrastructure is in trouble. Tunnels are falling apart,[2] and water pipes are lead-laced.[3] Independent analyses rate U.S. infrastructure an appalling D+,[4] and countless government studies confirm the …

Read more “Bulldozing Infrastructure Planning and the Environment through Trump’s Executive Order 13807”

President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail that he would make American energy “great again.”[2] He explained that much of the nation’s energy resources remained untapped and that the …

Read more “Streamlining or Steamrolling: Oil and Gas Leasing Reform on Federal Public Lands in the Trump Administration”