The public lands committee consists of practitioners in the area of natural resources and environmental law whose practices involve the use and management of publicly-owned lands, principally the federal public lands managed by the Forest Service, BLM, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The committee works to educate and involve its members in dialogue on these diverse issues, which involve practice in the federal courts and before administrative agencies and Congress, as well as state-level practice on the same or similar issues.

The committee's concerns cut across a wide array of substantive laws (e.g. Federal Land Policy and Management Act, Mining Law of 1872, Clean Water Act, Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, etc.) and the interrelationship of these laws as they affect development and preservation objectives on the public lands. The committee's members practice at the intersection of law, policy, economics in a rapidly-evolving and frequently controversial field receiving much attention from the land-using public.

The committee has a newsletter and active educational programs and publications, and a very active involved membership. Because the members of the committee are in far-flung (and sometimes remote) parts of the country, the committee has a particular desire and need to establish a committee list-serve so as to enable frequent, inexpensive, and easy communications between public land law specialists.

A list serve is an email list that aids committee members in communicating with each other in regards to committee activities or to discuss substantive topics pertaining to public land and resources law. The single list serve address contains the email addresses of all the committee members. The list serve address for this committee is:

ENVIRON-PUBLICLANDS@mail.abanet.org

In order to send out a message place the above address into the "To:" field of your email application, type your message and hit send, just like a normal email. Please visit http://www.abanet.org/environ/listserves.html for a comprehensive list of FAQ's regarding list serves.

Chair:
Denise A. Dragoo

Vice Chairs:
Committee Newsletters
Craig T. Donovan

Membership
Veronica Larvie

Programs
Kim Harb

Public Service
Peter Schaumberg

Technology
Jonathan D. Simon

The Year in Review
Jim Butler