Category: Issue 1
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Areas of Critical Environmental Concern: FLPMA’s Unfulfilled Conservation Mandate
[1]Authors’ note: The analysis and citations in this article to “current” Bureau of Land Management (BLM) planning regulations are to the regulations in effect in 2015, when the article was […]
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Mountain Biking into the Wilderness
ABSTRACT America’s Wilderness Act of 1964[2]* (the “Wilderness Act”) dedicates unique and scenically important federal lands for protection from development. Over time, the increased acreage of federal land designated as […]
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The Truth Behind International Climate Agreements: Why They Fail and Why the Bottom-Up is the Way Forward. A Game Theory Analysis
I. INTRODUCTION Climate change is one of the biggest problems facing the world today. It is no longer just environmental groups who are warning of the […]
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The Hard(rock) Truth About Abandoned Mines in the Western United States: Why the Pressure Is On to Enact Good Samaritan Legislation as a Way to Recover
I. INTRODUCTION The water was mustard yellow. It was unnatural and unsafe, but was it unexpected? The normally blue, free-flowing Animas River, which flows from Southern Colorado […]
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Speech: In Love With the Wild: Thoughts About the Public Lands in the 21st Century
[1]Years ago, the writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams and I stood on the sidewalk in front of the Whitney Museum in New York asking passersby if they knew what […]
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Colorado’s Ground-Level Ozone Burden
I. INTRODUCTION Since 1970, the federal government has been regulating ground-level ozone under the Clean Air Act (“CAA”). At the ground level, ozone is an air pollutant, […]
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Wringing Wonder From the Arid Landscape of Law
INTRODUCTION It is easy to celebrate the multi-faceted work of Charles Wilkinson. His public service has given voice to many lives and communities. His teaching has transformed […]
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Assured Water Supply Laws in the Western States: The Current State of Play
ABSTRACT Better integration of water and land use planning has become an almost universal rallying cry in areas of water scarcity. A starting point for this integration is […]