VIDEO: In Love with the Wild: Thoughts About Public Lands in the 21st Century

• Main Author: Hedden, Bill
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Colorado Law Scholarly Commons 2016
• Subjects: John Muir's birthday; Bruce Babbitt; Michael O'Connor; Mark Squillace; Lakshman Guruswamy; Sarah Krakoff; Audrey Huang; 1976; Harvard; Ph.D. physiology and pharmacology of the retina; outstanding graduate student; Eleanor Hedden; Utah; Chloe Hedden; artist; Sarah Hedden; the West; public lands; red rocks formation; fragility; future; one of the greatest conservation leaders in modern history; Colorado Plateau; conservation achievements; founder of grazing retirement movement; one million acres of grazing leases; Grand Staircase-Escalante; north rim of Grand Canyon; addition to Arches National Park; forced cleanup of huge uranium tailings deposit adjacent to the Colorado River; Executive Director of the Grand Canyon Trust; 16 years; successful; Pam Eaton; John Echohawk; Charles Wilkinson; leadership ability; wisdom; Terry Tempest Williams; National Park Service; Yellowstone; Yosemite; Bureau of Land Management; Salt Lake City; immense open country; heights; wildness; Utah plateaus; life of advocacy; Escalante River; camping; portrait photograph; muskellunge fish; America's public lands; 640 million acres; report from the field; activist; stakeholder; 21st century; assault from Congress; assault from state legislatures; armed militias; inestimable value; globally unique endowment; live in harmony; gorge of Colorado River; Grand Canyon; cliffs; mesas; towers; BLM study areas; national forest; boatman; swimming; ponderosa; aspen; pinon; juniper; ditch master; irrigation company; trout streams; rose hips; wild raspberries; Christmas tree; federal lands; westward expansion; transcontinental railroad; arid country; grazing permit; mining claim; sawmill; well; cows; going out of the world; rural people; federal project; Arab oil embargo; nuclear power; U.S. Department of Energy; DOE; high-level nuclear waste; five sites in the West; salt domes; Louisiana; Texas; welded tuff; Nevada; basalt; Hanford nuclear site; Columbia River; Paradox basin; eastern Utah; salt beds at western edge of Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park; Moab; uranium; city and county officials; host nuclear waste dump; yellow cake; Governor Matheson; citizen representative; task force; chief opponent; cost disadvantages; holding action; Senator Bennett Johnston; "screwing Nevada" bill; nuclear repository; Yucca Mountain site; defunded in 2011; NIMBY; rural citizens; western decisionmaking; sagebrush rebellion; western economy; tourism; transfer payments; quality of life economy; education; high-speed Internet; community leaders; collapse of mining industry; grazing restrictions; bookcliffs highway; I-70; local newspapers; county commissioners; county council member; fascinating experience; killed bookcliffs highway; mineral lease funds; redraw boundaries of Arches National Park; DOE project to remove uranium tailings; Utah wilderness; Mill Creek Canyon; watershed supply; wilderness study area; Senator Bill Bradley; New Jersey; public land policy; local interests; public lands management; science staffs; budgets; professional environmentalist; rural county government; conservation group; Grand Canyon Trust; activist career; principles for new vision of public lands; antidote for militias; environmental constituency; Rachel Carson; young people; generational transfer of environmentalism; climate; habitat; clean air; clean water; lifecycle analyses; new environmentalism; young activists; beauty and meaning; boldest and wisest experience; protecting and restoring; spring 2009; drought; windstorm; tornado; hailstorm; deer; shelter; mud; extraordinary years; southwest; dust on Rocky Mountain snowpack; runoff; 900; 000 acre feet; soil loss; land use; water supply; public land management; stabilizing soil service; biotic community; land management agency; policy choice; diverse habitats; restoration; carbon storage; grazing; healthy rangelands; 760 million acres; overgrazing; carbon sources; greenhouse gases; CO2 emissions; President Clinton; Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument; Escalante River private agreement; Utah Division of Wildlife; wildlife values; vegetation; tributary protection; native fishes; water quality; upland grasses; flycatchers; mule deer; rabbits; mountain lions; foxes; raptors; soil erosion; recreation; Aldo Leopold; myth of the cowboy; political pawn; ecosystem integrity; Jim Furnish; carbon sequestration; healthy habitats; protecting biggest areas of wild country; watershed boundaries; conservative adaptive restoration; humility; high stakes; costs and risks of climate change; impacts; high costs; social cost of carbon; damages; ocean acidification; loss of Arctic sea ice; melting permafrost; large scale forest diebacks; changed ocean currents; multiple uses; species loss; knowledge gaps; northwest forests; carbon emissions; western Oregon; timber production; global economy; climate costs vs. timber benefits; timber jobs; valuing public land; Keep It in the Ground movement; energy companies; leasing of fossil fuels; below two degrees centigrade of global warming; scientific research; superstorms; global emergency; reasonable path forward; conserve; decarbonize the grid; renewable energy; carbon emission tracking; coal; tar sands; oil shale; natural gas; moratorium on coal leasing; Clean Power Plan; low oil prices; bidders at federal auctions; climate auctions of oil and gas; climate movement; protesters; landscapes; stories; 180th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto; Sam Houston; Peace Treaty; Republic of Texas; Republic of Mexico; Spanish exploration and conquest; Rio Grande; indigenous peoples; 1765; Glen Canyon; fascinating insights; blacks; slaves; diverse peoples; democratic experiment; Homestead Act; 1862; manage our shared inheritance; President Obama; Cesar Chavez National Monument; evolve with society; Kiowa people; Hopi; salt trail; genocide; smallpox; forced acculturation; reciprocity; Native Americans; ancestors buried; medicines; sacred sites; historic new era; Antiquities Act of 1906; Wounded Knee; prehistoric ruins and artifacts; presidential proclamation; Bears Ears National Monument; San Juan River; cliff dwellings; burial grounds; five tribes; intertribal coalition; tribal land management; indigenous knowledge; Obama administration; collaborative management; tribal sovereignty movement; National Congress of American Indians; NCAI; threats of violence; Governor Herbert; Bundy ranch confrontation; Utah congressional delegation; ancestral lands; past injustices; healing; love and beauty; international; Goethe; beautiful is manifestation of secret laws of nature; interrelated; land management decisions; natural resources; prosperous future; best path; compassionate giving love affair with all of the creation; Biodiversity; Energy Policy; Environmental Health and Protection; Environmental Law; Environmental Policy; Forest Management; Geology; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; Natural Resource Economics; Natural Resources and Conservation; Natural Resources Law; Natural Resources Management and Policy; Nuclear Engineering; Oil; Gas; and Energy; and Mineral Law; Public Policy; Parks and Tourism Administration; Soil Science; State and Local Government Law; Sustainability; Water Law; Water Resource Management; Arctic; Audrey; Chavez; Homestead; Matheson; Moses; O'Connor; San Juan; Uranium City; Wilkinson; Climate change; Global warming; Ice; Ocean acidification; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/gwc_distinguished_lecture_series/3; https://youtu.be/aRZgvbrZpME

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