The National Wildlife Refuges provides a comprehensive examination of the laws and policies governing management of the national wildlife refuges, offering for the first time a practical description and analysis of the management regime outlined in the 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act. The 1997 act is the first new statute governing a system of federal public lands enacted since the 1970s. The evolution of law governing the refuge system parallels broader trends in public land management and environmental protection, making the refuge system a valuable case study for those interested in environmental management, policy, and law. The book: describes the National Wildlife Refuge System and its legal history; offers a detailed breakdown of the 1997 act, including its purpose, designated uses, comprehensive planning provisions, substantive management criteria, and public participation aspects; considers individual refuges and specific issues that apply to only certain refuges; discusses oil and gas development in refuges; offers observations about how well the refuge system law resolves historic tensions and achieves modern conservation goals; A separate chapter examines the special rules governing refuges in Alaska and considers the contentious debate over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Appendixes offer a reference of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology of the refuge system's development, key statutory provisions (including the full text of the 1997 act), and basic information about each national wildlife refuge. With an approach to conservation that is increasingly prevalent around the world, the National Wildlife Refuge System is an important model for sustainable resource management, and the book's analyses of the refuge system's ecological management criteria, conflicts between primary and subsidiary uses, and tension between site-specific standards and uniform national goals all offer important lessons for environmental governance generally.

This casebook is the authoritative introduction to public land and resources law. The eighth edition is completely updated, including thorough revisions of all chapters, considerable streamlining, and many new principal cases. The new edition increases emphasis on climate change, renewable energy, social justice (especially as it relates to Native Americans), Alaskan public lands, and other topics of contemporary interest. Professor Fischman's website law.indiana.edu/publicland/ uses the casebook outline to post new developments and supplemental materials. Readers will find there a rich assortment of supplemental materials such as maps and links to administrative records that can serve as research guides for students preparing papers.

This is a compilation that contains the major statutes affecting federal public land and resources law. Though keyed to Coggins, Wilkinson, Leshy & Fischman's Federal Public Land and Resources Law, it can be used with any other casebook on the subject. The new 2014 Statutory Supplement broadens coverage in parallel with the new edition of the casebook. It now includes the Federal Power Act, the Geothermal Resources Act, the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.