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Book Review: Our Common Ground: A History Of America's Public Lands, Sandra B. Zellmer
Book Review: Our Common Ground: A History Of America's Public Lands, Sandra B. Zellmer
Natural Resources Journal
No abstract provided.
America's (Second) Best Idea: A Proposal For A Major Expansion Of The National Park System, Claire Gaposchkin
America's (Second) Best Idea: A Proposal For A Major Expansion Of The National Park System, Claire Gaposchkin
William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review
This Note will argue for a major expansion of the National Park Service and provide a framework for the implementation of such an expansion. Part I provides an overview of the National Park Service’s holdings and fundamental purpose and discusses how overcrowding negatively affects visitors, the resource, and the NPS mission, and argues for a stricter enforcement of the “impairment standard.” Part II outlines the way in which Congress and the president can create national parks. Part III proposes a major expansion of the national parks—both the expansion of existing park units and the creation of new ones—as the solution …
The Carbon Storage Future Of Public Lands, Tara Righetti, Jesse Richardson, Kris Koski, Sam Taylor
The Carbon Storage Future Of Public Lands, Tara Righetti, Jesse Richardson, Kris Koski, Sam Taylor
Pace Environmental Law Review
To meet the climate and energy goals set forth by the Biden Administration and the Paris Agreement, the United States must dramatically reduce carbon emissions. Use of public lands for carbon dioxide removal activities, including carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), has the potential to advance carbon reduction goals and concurrently provide economic revitalization opportunities to communities dependent on fossil industries. Current federal law presents numerous challenges and opportunities associated with utilization of federal pore space for CCUS. Although federal grant programs and tax incentives encourage deployment of CCUS technologies, legal and land-management issues related to public lands have received …
Indigenizing Grand Canyon, Jason Anthony Robison
Indigenizing Grand Canyon, Jason Anthony Robison
Utah Law Review
The magical place commonly called the “Grand Canyon” is Native space. Eleven tribes hold traditional connections to the canyon according to the National Park Service. This Article is about relationships between these tribes and the agency—past, present, and future. Grand Canyon National Park’s 2019 centennial afforded a valuable opportunity to reflect on these relationships and to envision what they might become. A reconception of the relationships has begun in recent decades that evidences a shift across the National Park System as a whole. This reconception should continue. Drawing on the tribal vision for Bears Ears National Monument, this Article advocates …
U.S. Forest Service V. Cowpasture River Preservation Ass'n., Taylor A. Simpson
U.S. Forest Service V. Cowpasture River Preservation Ass'n., Taylor A. Simpson
Public Land & Resources Law Review
The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of the United States Forest Service and Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC, a company who planned to construct a natural gas pipeline under a section of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail within the George Washington National Forest. The legal battle sought to clarify whether the United States Forest Service had the authority to grant the pipeline builder a right-of-way across the Appalachian Trail. The Court ruled that the National Park Service holds an easement for administering the Appalachian Trail, but the land over which the trail crosses remains under the jurisdiction of the …
Not Yet America's Best Idea: Law, Inequality, And Grand Canyon National Park, Sarah Krakoff
Not Yet America's Best Idea: Law, Inequality, And Grand Canyon National Park, Sarah Krakoff
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Streamlining Or Steamrolling: Oil And Gas Leasing Reform On Federal Public Lands In The Trump Administration, Marcilynn A. Burke
Streamlining Or Steamrolling: Oil And Gas Leasing Reform On Federal Public Lands In The Trump Administration, Marcilynn A. Burke
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Ecosystem Services And Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution In Natural Resources Management, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman
Ecosystem Services And Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution In Natural Resources Management, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman
University of Colorado Law Review
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 did not exist twentyfive years ago-the language of ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are the range of benefits that ecological resources provide to humans, from water purification and pollination to carbon sequestration and wildlife habitat. The scientific discipline advancing the ecosystem services framework arose in the mid-1990s and quickly became a central strategy for fusing ecology and economics research. Despite its ascendance in research communities, the recognition and conservation of ecosystem …
This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Mined Land: Expanding Governmental Ownership Liability Under Cercla, Kiersten E. Holms
This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Mined Land: Expanding Governmental Ownership Liability Under Cercla, Kiersten E. Holms
Washington and Lee Law Review
Part II of this Note begins by providing a brief overview of the background and goals of CERCLA. Part II also provides an examination of the issue of ownership liability under CERCLA and recounts the federal courts’ difficulty in applying ownership liability. Part II then describes how the federal government’s “bare legal title” argument arose out of the confusion surrounding ownership liability in CERCLA litigation. Part III moves on to examine the recent trend in CERCLA litigation rejecting the federal government’s bare legal title argument, thus holding the federal government liable as an owner based on its possession of legal …
The Transformation Of The Antiquities Act: A Call For Amending The President’S Power Regarding National Monument Designations, Andrew Diaz
Golden Gate University Law Review
Part I of this Comment discusses the background of the Antiquities Act, including: the legislature’s intent in drafting the Act, changes to the law, and how it has been used throughout the years. This section then discusses various legal challenges to designations made under the Antiquities Act and looks at why these designations are sometimes controversial. Part II discusses the calls by many politicians to either amend or repeal the Act and explains why current proposed legislation is insufficient. This Comment critiques the proposed legislation and calls for the passage of sensible legislation that would require a more transparent designation …
Highway Culverts, Salmon Runs, And The Stevens Treaties: A Century Of Litigating Pacific Northwest Tribal Fishing Rights, Ryan Hickey
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Isaac Stevens, then Superintendent of Indian Affairs and Governor of Washington Territory, negotiated a series of treaties with Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest during 1854 and 1855. A century and a half later in 2001, the United States joined 21 Indian tribes in filing a Request for Determination in the United States District Court for the District of Washington. Plaintiffs alleged the State of Washington had violated those 150-year-old treaties, which remained in effect, by building and maintaining culverts under roads that prevented salmon passage. This litigation eventually reached the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held in favor …
Collaboration Through Nepa: Achieving A Social License To Operate On Federal Public Lands, Temple Stoellinger, L. Steven Smutko, Jessica M. Western
Collaboration Through Nepa: Achieving A Social License To Operate On Federal Public Lands, Temple Stoellinger, L. Steven Smutko, Jessica M. Western
Public Land & Resources Law Review
As demand and consumption of natural gas increases, so will drilling operations to extract the natural gas on federal public lands. Fueled by the shale gas revolution, natural gas drilling operations are now frequently taking place, not only in the highly documented urban settings, but also on federal public lands with high conservation value. The phenomenon of increased drilling in sensitive locations, both urban and remote, has sparked increased public opposition, requiring oil and gas producers to reconsider how they engage the public. Oil and gas producers have increasingly deployed the concept of a social license to operate to gain …
Public-Private Conservation Agreements And The Greater Sage-Grouse, Justin R. Pidot
Public-Private Conservation Agreements And The Greater Sage-Grouse, Justin R. Pidot
Public Land & Resources Law Review
In 2015, the Obama Administration announced its conservation plans for the greater sage-grouse, an iconic bird of the intermountain west.Political leadership at the time described those plans as the “largest landscape-level conservation effort in U.S. history,”and they served as the foundation for a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) that a listing of the bird was not warranted under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”). The Trump Administration appears poised to substantially amend the plans, although an array of interested parties have urged that the plans be left intact. Regardless of the outcome of this debate, conservation of …
Streamlining The Production Of Clean Energy: Proposals To Reform The Hydroelectricity Licensing Process, Travis Kavulla, Laura Farkas
Streamlining The Production Of Clean Energy: Proposals To Reform The Hydroelectricity Licensing Process, Travis Kavulla, Laura Farkas
Public Land & Resources Law Review
Hydroelectric power is an efficient and clean source of power. In an era when air emissions dominate public concern about the environmental effects of the energy sector, it is a paradox that among the most highly regulated energy projects are hydroelectric dams, which do not combust fuel. This is partly due to a failure of successive statutory enactments,which have transformed hydroelectric licensing from a regulatory “one-stop shop” with a single regulator, to a process chained to a bewilderingnumber of often conflicting regulatory agencies, often riven with delay. Hydroelectric licensing has also failed because its capacious standard of review encourages special-interest …
Legal Adaptive Capacity : How Program Goals And Processes Shape Federal Land Adaption To Climate Change, Alejandro E. Camacho, Robert L. Glicksman
Legal Adaptive Capacity : How Program Goals And Processes Shape Federal Land Adaption To Climate Change, Alejandro E. Camacho, Robert L. Glicksman
University of Colorado Law Review
The degree to which statutory goals are pliable is likely to significantly affect the ability of an agency with regulatory or management responsibilities to achieve those objectives in the face of novel challenges or changing circumstances. This Article explores this dynamic by comparing the degree of 'ive" provided by the goals of the regimes governing management of the five types of federal public lands in responding to the challenges posed by climate change. A comparative analysis of federal land adaptation to climate change demonstrates that a management regime's legal adaptive capacity is influenced not only by procedural flexibility, but also …
Treating The Blue Rash: Win-Win Solutions And Improving The Land Exchange Process, Smith Monson
Treating The Blue Rash: Win-Win Solutions And Improving The Land Exchange Process, Smith Monson
Utah Law Review
The history of public land laws from disposal to retention has created a fragmented ownership in the West. The school land grants led to a spotty pattern of state trust land ownership. This in turn creates conflict between the mandates of federal agencies—whose mandate is to protect environmentally sensitive areas—and state trust land authorities—whose mandate is to generate revenues for their beneficiaries. Both mandates promote important public interests.
Legislative land exchanges present potential win-win solutions for extricating state trust lands from within federal conservation areas, but they require a process that is too long and onerous. However, by improving the …
Clear As Mud: Recreating Public Water Rights That Already Exist, Kathryn A. Tipple
Clear As Mud: Recreating Public Water Rights That Already Exist, Kathryn A. Tipple
Utah Law Review
“Speculation. Water monopoly. Land monopoly. . . . John Wesley Powell was pretty well convinced that those would be the fruits of a western land policy based on wishful thinking, willfulness, and lousy science.”186 PWR 107 was created to avoid water monopolization through land reservation. However, it would seem that management of public water reserves on federal lands has succumbed to some of John Wesley Powell’s concerns: management has been incomplete, ad hoc, and potentially based on incomplete hydrological data. PWR 107, as well as federal water reserves in general, pits western states against the BLM where there is a …
2012 Federal Legislative Review, Carolyn Greenshields, Kimberly White Laduca
2012 Federal Legislative Review, Carolyn Greenshields, Kimberly White Laduca
Animal Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Practical Effects Of Delegation: Agencies And The Zoning Of Public Lands And Seas, Josh Eagle
The Practical Effects Of Delegation: Agencies And The Zoning Of Public Lands And Seas, Josh Eagle
Pepperdine Law Review
Legislative efforts to delegate zoning power to public land and ocean management agencies have generally proven unsuccessful. When given the power to create uniform-use areas such as parks and wilderness areas within their broader jurisdictions, agencies either have opted not to exercise it or have been extremely hesitant to do so. The tepid administrative response to zoning is not surprising. Zoning decisions are politically charged, are likely to offend powerful, concentrated interest groups, and erode the discretion that is the core of agency power. These aspects of zoning decisions explain why, by contrast, all states require that municipal zoning ordinances …
Ecosystem Services And Federal Public Lands: Start-Up Policy Questions And Research Needs, J. B. Ruhl
Ecosystem Services And Federal Public Lands: Start-Up Policy Questions And Research Needs, J. B. Ruhl
Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
No abstract provided.
A Redeemable Loss: Lying, Lower Courts And American Indian Free Exercise On Public Lands, Peter Zwick
A Redeemable Loss: Lying, Lower Courts And American Indian Free Exercise On Public Lands, Peter Zwick
Case Western Reserve Law Review
No abstract provided.
Building A Fence Of Separation: The Constitutional Validity Of Land Transfers In Escaping From Establishment Clause Violations, Christopher Lauderman
Building A Fence Of Separation: The Constitutional Validity Of Land Transfers In Escaping From Establishment Clause Violations, Christopher Lauderman
Washington and Lee Law Review
No abstract provided.
E-Mail To Rebecca, Dale D. Goble
E-Mail To Rebecca, Dale D. Goble
University of Colorado Law Review
H.L.A. Hart is probably the most important legal theorist in the modern English-speaking world. The intriguing subtitle of Nicola Lacey's intimate biography, "The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, " echoes the name of Hart's 1997 Georgia Law Review paper, in which he identifies two warring, equally inadequate, visions of law in American jurisprudence: the "nightmare" of complete indeterminacy and unbridled judicial discretion and the "noble dream " of a closed, deterministic legal system of judicial restraint. Lacey implies that Hart's life itself was both a nightmare and a noble dream. This book review expands on Lacey's work and suggests how …
Protecting American Indian Sacred Sites On Federal Lands, Elizabeth G. Pianca
Protecting American Indian Sacred Sites On Federal Lands, Elizabeth G. Pianca
Santa Clara Law Review
No abstract provided.
Executive Power And The Public Lands, Harold H. Bruff
Executive Power And The Public Lands, Harold H. Bruff
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Setting Boundaries For Extraterritorial Applications Of The Property Clause: An Assessment Of An Alternative Source Of Authority For Environmental Regulations, Cyril Robert Emery
Setting Boundaries For Extraterritorial Applications Of The Property Clause: An Assessment Of An Alternative Source Of Authority For Environmental Regulations, Cyril Robert Emery
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Natural Resources Policy Under The Bush Administration: Not What It Says, But What It Has Done In Court, William Perry Pendley
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
No abstract provided.
Re-Examining The Governing Framework Of The Public Lands, Daniel Kemmis
Re-Examining The Governing Framework Of The Public Lands, Daniel Kemmis
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Cooperative Conservation: The Federalism Underpinnings To Public Involvement In The Management Of Public Lands, Robert D. Comer
Cooperative Conservation: The Federalism Underpinnings To Public Involvement In The Management Of Public Lands, Robert D. Comer
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Settling The Wilderness, Sarah Krakoff
Settling The Wilderness, Sarah Krakoff
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.