Balance in the Basin

Authors

Casey Lee McClellan

Abstract

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) changed the way land managers and users interact with public lands. However, its stringent requirements are not responsive to today’s environmental and economic realities. For the future of sustainable mineral extraction, there must be a better way. Adaptive management, a more flexible planning process, should be used on public lands to ensure greater leeway for operators, environmentalists, and local economies. By analyzing rural northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin’s history and existing public land use plans, this Note applies adaptive management to the area to show how thinking outside the box can solve seemingly unsolvable problems.

Rights

© 2023 Brigham Young University Law Review

Recommended Citation

Casey Lee McClellan, Balance in the Basin, 49 BYU L. Rev. 573 (2023).
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/lawreview/vol49/iss2/10