Year: 1996
Type: article
Abstract: A new breed of lawmaker has come to town-to Washington, D.C., that is-with guns blazing in the direction of a whole range of government agencies and programs.In Public Lands and Private Rights, Robert H. Nelson could well be supplying "wanted" posters to Speaker Gingrich and his deputies, identifying a villain in one of big government's biggest responsibilities: over 350 million acres of federal land that occupy almost forty-eight percent of eleven Western states (p.206).Nelson, an economist and eighteen-year veteran of the Department of the Interior's Office of Policy Analysis, has done much more than supply "dead or alive" warrants spelling out the misdeeds of the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and other federal agencies that administer public lands.His latest book provides an intellectual springboard for anyone looking to rethink, retool, or even dismantle the federal land management system.That project may well be underway.The 104th Congress, led by Republicans from Western states who head up public land and natural resource committees, is delving into public land management.'In 1995, bills were introduced to mandate specific levels of logging in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, 2 to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, 3 and to allow development of twenty million acres of federal land in Utah. 4 Other
Source: The Yale Law Journal
DOI: 10.2307/797301
Authors: Marinn F. Carlson, Robert H. Nelson
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: U.S. Bureau of Land Management
OpenAlex ID: W4237197706