Utah’s lawsuit against the United States is an existential threat to more than 200 million acres of federal public lands.
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John Leshy
Book Review: Our Common Ground: A History of America’s Public Lands
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Understanding the history of public lands is useful if one is to be the best advocate for the conservation of public lands.
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Debunking Creation Myths About America’s Public Lands. 2018. John D. Leshy. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. $7.95 (Amazon $7.15).
Booklet Review: Debunking Creation Myths About America’s Public Lands
America’s public lands are often in need of a good lawyer, and they have one in John Leshy. He has served America’s public lands (and its owners) as an academic, author, and advocate. In his long career, he’s published legal textbooks, written briefs, argued cases, and taught law students, and he was the top lawyer in the U.S. Department of the Interior for almost as long as Bruce Babbitt was secretary of the interior.
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