Only one out of 50 U.S. Forest Service projects to reduce wildfire risk gets challenged in court nationwide, but in the region including Montana environmental groups sue at the highest rate in the nation, a new government report says.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 March 2010 )
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February 25-28, 2010
University of Oregon School of Law (Eugene, Oregon)
28th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
Land Air Water is pleased to announce that the 28th annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) will be held at the University of Oregon School of Law from February 25-28, 2010. Once again we will be welcoming attorneys, activists, government officials, students, and community members to the law school for the world's largest and most important conference of its kind. There will also be a special pre-PIELC lecture presented by the Oregon Humanities Center the evening of February 24 featuring environmental attorney Denis Hayes, the National Coordinator for the first Earth Day, the former director of the federal government's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the current President of the Bullitt Foundation.
We are currently accepting panel suggestions for the 2010 PIELC. Please submit ideas to us at http://pielc.org/pages/panel_suggest.html. The priority deadline for panel submissions is December 18, 2009, however we will continue to accept panel suggestions until January 22, 2010.
Stay tuned to www.pielc.org for more updates as we get closer to the conference.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 19 October 2009 )
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November 4–6, 2009 Embassy Suites Hotel, Albuquerque, N.M. The Quivira Coalition Annual Conference
- “Living Leopold” – two-day conference, November 5-6th, Embassy Suites, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- “Reading Leopold” - free event, featuring Aldo’s daughter Estella and other authors, Wednesday evening, the 4th.
- Range School: coexistence between cattle and dung beetles, bats, beaver, elk, and wolves!” – all-day November 4th.
- Water Symposium: “Let the Water Do the Work”, featuring the debut of Bill Zeedyk’s 250-page opus! – all day the 4th.
- Burch Award Banquet: featuring the 2009 winners – the Madison Valley Ranchlands Group. Friday, evening, the 6th.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 October 2009 )
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