Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Event Date
9-28-1994
Series
Western Lands Conference (2nd: 1994: Boulder, Colo.)
Description
16 pages.
Contains references.
Citation Information
Fairfax, Sally K., "Interest Group Participation in Public Land Planning and Decision Making Processes: Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Found?" (1994). Who Governs the Public Lands: Washington? The West? The Community? (September 28-30).
https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/who-governs-public-lands-washington-west-community/8
Alternate Title
Paradigm Lost, Paradigm Found?
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Environmental Policy Commons, Land Use Law Commons, Natural Resources and Conservation Commons, Natural Resources Management and Policy Commons, Property Law and Real Estate Commons, Public Policy Commons
Comments
Shifting policy objectives and management approaches for the public lands of the West are provoking heated debate about how these decisions should be made and implemented. Are these policy directions a reflection of the "New West" or are they, in fact, a declaration of "war on the West"? Somewhere between these polarities of view, efforts are underway to open dialogue and reach consensus.
This second annual western lands conference, Who Governs the Public Lands: Washington? The West? The Community?, explores federal initiatives including the Colorado Grazing Roundtable and Rangeland '94, Option 9 and the Pacific Northwest forests, bypass flows and Colorado national forests, and wilderness protection in Utah.
Speakers from federal agencies, from states, from groups concerned with the use and protection of the public lands, and from academia, discuss these initiatives and issues that they raise regarding control of the western public lands.