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Book Review: Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands

Understanding the history of public lands is useful if one is to be the best advocate for the conservation of public lands.

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Bureau of Land Management, Congress, Counties & Federal Lands, Deserts, Ecological Reserves, Endangered Species, Federal Lands, Fish and Wildlife Service, Land & Water Cons. Fund, Nat'l Conservation Lands, Presidents Andy Kerr Bureau of Land Management, Congress, Counties & Federal Lands, Deserts, Ecological Reserves, Endangered Species, Federal Lands, Fish and Wildlife Service, Land & Water Cons. Fund, Nat'l Conservation Lands, Presidents Andy Kerr

Roading the Red Cliffs: Unnecessary, and Illegal to Boot

The Colorado Plateau, the Great Basin Desert, and the Mojave Desert come together in Washington County, Utah, where the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area (RCNCA) is generally centered. In this transition zone, unusual plant and animal species have evolved, including the dwarf bearclaw-poppy (Arctomecon humilis) and Shivwits milk-vetch (Astragalus ampullarioides), small native plants that grow nowhere else on earth.

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Public Land Law, Counties & Federal Lands, State & Local Government, Courts & Litigation Andy Kerr Public Land Law, Counties & Federal Lands, State & Local Government, Courts & Litigation Andy Kerr

Coordination Schmordination

Given the importance to certain local interests of federal public lands owned by all Americans, local interests (often through their local county governments) have come up with creative legal theories as to why they should have control, or at least more control than others. 

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