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Not Yet America's Best Idea: Law, Inequality, And Grand Canyon National Park, Sarah Krakoff Jan 2020

Not Yet America's Best Idea: Law, Inequality, And Grand Canyon National Park, Sarah Krakoff

University of Colorado Law Review

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Streamlining Or Steamrolling: Oil And Gas Leasing Reform On Federal Public Lands In The Trump Administration, Marcilynn A. Burke Jan 2020

Streamlining Or Steamrolling: Oil And Gas Leasing Reform On Federal Public Lands In The Trump Administration, Marcilynn A. Burke

University of Colorado Law Review

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Ecosystem Services And Federal Public Lands: A Quiet Revolution In Natural Resources Management, J.B. Ruhl, James Salzman Jan 2020

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 …


Legal Adaptive Capacity : How Program Goals And Processes Shape Federal Land Adaption To Climate Change, Alejandro E. Camacho, Robert L. Glicksman Jan 2016

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 …


E-Mail To Rebecca, Dale D. Goble Jan 2007

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 …


Executive Power And The Public Lands, Harold H. Bruff Jan 2005

Executive Power And The Public Lands, Harold H. Bruff

University of Colorado Law Review

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Re-Examining The Governing Framework Of The Public Lands, Daniel Kemmis Jan 2004

Re-Examining The Governing Framework Of The Public Lands, Daniel Kemmis

University of Colorado Law Review

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Cooperative Conservation: The Federalism Underpinnings To Public Involvement In The Management Of Public Lands, Robert D. Comer Jan 2004

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 Jan 2004

Settling The Wilderness, Sarah Krakoff

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Property Clause: As If Biodiversity Mattered, Dale D. Goble Jan 2004

The Property Clause: As If Biodiversity Mattered, Dale D. Goble

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Property Clause And New Federalism, Allison H. Eid Jan 2004

The Property Clause And New Federalism, Allison H. Eid

University of Colorado Law Review

No abstract provided.