The evolving battle over management of the West’s
vast public lands is the focus of a three-day conference sponsored
by the University of Colorado’s Natural Resources Law Center. “Who
governs the public lands: Washington? The West? The community?”
features Western heavyweights from academia, industry,
environmental groups and federal agencies discussing everything
from grazing reform to forest management in the Pacific Northwest.
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt will kick off the event, which
runs Sept. 28-30. Other speakers include Dan Luecke, regional
director for the Environmental Defense Fund; University of Colorado
law professor Charles Wilkinson; Maggie Fox, Southwest
representative of the Sierra Club, and High Country News publisher
Ed Marston. The closing session examines planning models in the
West in which local and national interests have worked
collaboratively to solve natural resource problems on public lands.
The conference, held in the courtroom of the University of Colorado
School of Law in Boulder, costs $325. Discounts are available for
academics, government employees and those working for nonprofits.
For more information, contact the Natural Resources Law Center,
University of Colorado School of Law, Campus Box 401, Boulder, CO
80309-0401 (303/492-1288).
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Whose public lands?.
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