Public Land Law and Policy
The Public Land Law and Policy Project includes a variety of activities in which the Center promotes well-informed and sustainable policies for public land and resource management. In pursuit of this goal, we provide professional support to the student-run Public Land Law Conference at the University of Montana School of Law, the longest running annual legal program dedicated to public land issues.
In support of the 2008 Public Land Law Conference, the Center facilitated a dialogue on public land policies for the new administration with members of the National Advisory Board of the Public Land and Resources Law Review, resulting in a major policy report issued early in 2009.
Read more about this report at Headwaters News and Science Progress.
Members of the Center’s staff regularly participate in policy discussions, research projects, and public education related to public land law and policy. These have included training sessions for staff of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on collaborative processes, briefings for Forest Service staff on collaborative processes. Typically, we also publish the results of our applied work in professional journals to share broader observations about policy development.
