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Composition Over Division: The Statutes Of The National Forest System, Jamison E. Colburn
Composition Over Division: The Statutes Of The National Forest System, Jamison E. Colburn
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
In September 2020, the U.S. Forest Service took the extraordinary step of closing all 18 national forests in California. The risk of catastrophic fire had become so acute that tolerating any human visitors—who could ignite more—was no longer tenable. Damages from the fires of 2020 are still being tallied, but the catastrophe is hard to deny. Five of the state’s six largest fires on record occurred in 2020. Migrating birds dropped from the sky by the thousands from some combination of asphyxiation, exhaustion, and starvation. An estimated 80% of California’s watersheds had recently burned by 2019, leaving them immediately vulnerable …
The Public Trust Doctrine And The Climate Crisis: Panacea Or Platitude?, Joseph Regalia
The Public Trust Doctrine And The Climate Crisis: Panacea Or Platitude?, Joseph Regalia
Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law
Over a year of shutting down the global economy during the COVID pandemic achieved about .01 degrees of improvement in global warming. Not even a drop in the bucket. We continue to face a monumental climate crisis. And of the many ways that crisis threatens our environment, winnowing water resources is one of the scariest. One solution that many scholars have turned to is the public trust doctrine. At first blush, this doctrine sounds like a panacea for water management problems: When our water resources are threatened enough that current and future citizen’s access to it is in peril, the …