Description
This casebook provides an authoritative introduction to the study of public land and resources law. Case studies, case notes, and examples illustrate legal points, with special attention given to historical and social context. The Sixth Edition updates, consolidates, and streamlines chapters. It gives substantial attention to cultural resource preservation, hydropower licensing, and remedies for federal breaches of contracts. It retains its comprehensive coverage of public land history, constitutional issues, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), endangered species protection, approaches to interpreting prior legal authorities, planning, access, land management, and the resource subjects themselves: water, minerals, timber, wildlife, recreation, and preservation.