Journal of Land, Resources, and Environmental Law Vol. 24 No. 2 2004

Table of Contents: The Nuclear West: National Programs and Regional Continuity Since 1942; The Press, "National Security," and Nuclear Weapons: Lessons from Rocky Flats; The Nuclear West: Which Road to the Future?; Atomic Time Machines: Back to the Nuclear Future; Atomic Myths, Radioactive Realities: Why Nuclear Power is a Poor Way to Meet Energy Needs; The Last Laugh; Natural Resources Defense Council v. Abraham: Preventing the Department of Energy from Defining Away High-Level Nuclear Waste; Is Nuclear Waste Coming to Utah? An In-Depth Look at Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians v. Leavitt; Fourth Circuit Grants Standing but Denies an Injunction Sought by the Governor of South Carolina to Prevent the Transportation of Plutonium into the State; Merilyn Cook v. Rockwell International Corporation: Under the Price-Anderson Act, Tort Claimants are not Required to Prove that Nuclear Weapon Manufacturers Violated Federal Regulations; Federal Court of Claims Further Defines Nuclear Power Companies' Ability to Collect Damages; Creating Refuge out of Waste: The D.C. Court of Appeals Upholds the Hanford Reach National Monument; The Public Trust Doctrine in Federal Law; Buying Back the West; The Tragedy of the Commons from Spindletop to Enron; Canadian Participatory Rights in Energy Resource Development: The Bridges to Empowerment?; The Evolving Disconnect Between Law Schools and Continuing Legal Education in Resources Law; A Call for Native American Natural Resources in the Law School Curriculum; The Multiple to Dominant Use Paradigm Shift in Natural Resources Management; Of Gold and Grizzlies: A Tale of Two Laws; The BLM's Proposed New Grazing Regulations: Serving the Most Special Interest; Class Actions Pushed to the Extreme: Will Class Action Plaintiff's Lawyers be Permitted to Re-Zone Our Courts for Tract Housing?; Sustainable Development: Impacts of Current Trends on Oil and Gas Development; Exploratory Unitization Under the 2004 Model Oil and Gas Conservation Act: Leveling the Playing Field; The Legal Mining Framework of Panama and the Proposal to Recast the 1963 Code of Mineral Resources and to Improve the Investment Climate for the Mining Industry: Juridical and Mining Policy Principles; Solving the Mineral Conundrum; Catching up: The Need to Reflect the Current Gas Marketing Envrionment in Oil and Gas Agreements; The Case of the Abolition of Free Entry Mining Regimes; The "Marketable Location" Rule and Energy Policy Considerations; Reclamation During and After Mining; The Price of Water; Water Planning in New Mexico: Enigma, Paradox, or Patter?; Protecting the Ogallala Aquifer in Kansas from Depletion: The Teaching Perspective; Threatened or Endangered? Keystone Species or Public Health Threat? The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog, the Endangered Species Act, and the Imminent Threat of Bubonic Plague; The President, the Environment, and Foreign Policy: The Globalization of Environmental Politics; Unforgiving Geographies and the Unsettling of Alaska; Native Claims and Political Development; Alaska's Village Economies; ANCSA and Sovereignty Litigation; The Navajo-Gallup Project: Legality of Intrastate/Interbasin Diversions Under the Colorado River Compact; President George W. Bush's Forest Policy: Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003; From Downlisting to Delisting: Anticipating Legal Actions if Gray Wolves are Delisted from the Endangered Species Act; The New Competing Uses: Balancing Recreation with Preservation in Utah's Wasatch Mountains; Sewage Effluent Happens: But Who Has the Right to Its Beneficial Use?; Wind Energy Development on BLM Lands