Coggins & Wilkinson’s Federal Public Land and Resources Law

John D. Leshy, UC College of the Law, San Francisco

Robert L. Fischman, Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington

Sarah A. Krakoff, University of Colorado School of Law

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The eighth edition reflects some reorganization as well as new material. As always, it is structured for classes to cover the foundational material in chapters 1-5 efficiently before getting to selected resource-specific chapters (6–14), each of which stands on its own. The book aims to challenge students while conveying the sense of human drama and place that attracted each of us to this legal specialty. This new edition contains more references and discussion prompts regarding historical injustices and current inequities. Chapter 1, for instance, contains a new excerpt from Prof. Krakoff on public lands and possibility of justice. Chapter 2 expands on the racist legacy of Johnson v. M’Intosh and other cases at the heart of public land history. Our new Chapter 14 explores “Heritage and Native Nations,” combining material that formerly we covered in Chapters 5 and 13 on the Antiquities Act and other issues regarding Native American ties to public lands. For the first time, this edition includes a Glossary of Acronyms to help readers keep track of the alphabet soup.

Other changes include a new principal preemption case, Bohmker v. Oregon, in Chapter 3’s preemption coverage in state-federal relations. We added WildEarth Guardians v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a new principal case addressing climate change, in our Chapter 4 coverage of NEPA. In moving the Antiquities Act to Chapter 14, we consolidate all the materials on FLPMA’s provisions dealing with withdrawals, sales, and exchanges (formerly divided between Chapters 5 & 7) into Chapter 5. We also include the new principal case of Nat’l Mining Ass’n v. Zinke in the subchapter on FLPMA withdrawals. We responded to reader requests for more detail on the special rules that apply to management of federal lands in Alaska with a new subchapter containing a new principal case—the Supreme Court’s 2019 decision in Sturgeon v. Frost.

We restructured Chapter 7 on “Hardrock Mining” to clearly guide students through both acquisition of mineral rights and limitations on their exercise. A new principal case, Earthworks v. U.S. Department of the Interior, explores whether the vast scale of modern hardrock mining is compatible with the arcane limitations of the still-surviving Mining Law of 1872. Chapter 8, retitled simply “Energy,” now provides greater treatment of climate change, including two new principal cases––California v. Bernhardt and WildEarth Guardians v. Zinke. We rewrote the Solar Energy Problem to better portray the issues that have arisen in recent years regarding BLM permitting of renewable energy facilities through its FLPMA authorities. Chapter 9’s coverage of federal forest management includes a new principal case, Cowpasture River Preservation Ass’n v. Forest Service, addressing when old national forest plans must be revised under the 2012 planning rule. Its treatment of biological monitoring for diversity now includes an excerpt of the Lands Council III decision. Chapter 10, renamed “Livestock Grazing,” offers an updated, more concise presentation of materials from our previous edition. Revised Chapter 11 on Wildlife does the same. Chapter 12, “Recreation,” presents new material from the Supreme Court’s Cowpasture decision on the division of authority between agencies for Appalachian Trail easements. Its subchapter on off-road motorized recreation updates developments on national forests with the aid of a new principal excerpt from WildEarth Guardians v. Montana Snowmobile Ass’n. Chapter 13 now focuses on three federal preservation systems for wilderness, rivers, and marine resources. The material on archaeological, cultural, and historical resources formerly in Chapter 13 is now combined with the national monuments in a new Chapter 14 on “Heritage and Native Nations.”

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