Trump wants to scale back national monuments on federal lands in the name of boosting the economy. But this would undo decades of investments to manage our cultural and ecological resources.
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Militants who took over the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon – and were acquitted of charges – ultimately failed because local ranchers saw a better way to deal with federal agencies.
Acquitted in the Malheur takeover trial, Ryan Bundy urges protests against efforts to conserve public lands. Who will protect federal employees?
Debates over federal lands, from the Malheur Refuge takeover to fossil fuel leases on public land, are back in the news. How do the two parties line up on public land policy?
An anthropologist argues for new ways to value sacred landscapes.
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W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College
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Assistant Professor of Law & Co-Director, Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic, University of Montana
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Professor of Law, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University
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Professor of Geography, University of Oregon
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GIS and Policy Analyst, Boise State University
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Professor of Law, University of Montana
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver