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Whose Lands? Which Public?: The Shape Of Public-Lands Law And Trump's National Monument Proclamations, Jedediah Britton-Purdy Jan 2018

Whose Lands? Which Public?: The Shape Of Public-Lands Law And Trump's National Monument Proclamations, Jedediah Britton-Purdy

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President Trump issued a proclamation in December 2017 purporting to remove two million acres in southern Utah from national monument status, radically shrinking the Grand-Staircase Escalante National Monument and splitting the Bears Ears National Monument into two residual protected areas. Whether the President has the power to revise or revoke existing monuments under the Antiquities Act, which creates the national monument system, is a new question of law for a 112-year-old statute that has been used by Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama to protect roughly fifteen million acres of federal land and hundreds of millions of marine acres. …


Ecosystem Services And Federal Public Lands: Start-Up Policy Questions And Research Needs, J. B. Ruhl Jul 2010

Ecosystem Services And Federal Public Lands: Start-Up Policy Questions And Research Needs, J. B. Ruhl

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

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Natural Resources Policy Under The Bush Administration: Not What It Says, But What It Has Done In Court, William Perry Pendley Apr 2004

Natural Resources Policy Under The Bush Administration: Not What It Says, But What It Has Done In Court, William Perry Pendley

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

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Scientists, Judges, And Spotted Owls: Policymakers In The Pacific Northwest, Brendon Swedlow Apr 2003

Scientists, Judges, And Spotted Owls: Policymakers In The Pacific Northwest, Brendon Swedlow

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.