Journal of Land, Resources & Environmental Law Volume 25 No. 2 2005

Table of Contents: Contemporary Politics of Wilderness Preservation; Wilderness for Its Own Sake or as Economic Asset?; Why Wilderness Matters More Now Than Ever; Wilderness: Preserving Nature in a Political World; Wilderness Recreation: Use or Abuse of the Enduring Resource?; Biodiversity and Wilderness: The Need for Systematic Protection of Biological Diversity; Utah Association of Counties v. Bush: A Look at How Federal District Court of Utah Upheld the Creation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Through the Antiquities Act; Upsetting the Balance: Environmental Protection Agency Has Power to "Veto" State Permit Determinations Under the Clean Air Act; Six Million Sockeye Salmon and the Kenai Refuge: Analysis of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' Two Decisions in The Wilderness Society v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service; Wilderness Watch v. Mainella: The Wilderness Act and National Environmental Policy Act are Given Meaning by the Eleventh Circuit; Snowmobiles in Yellowstone: Conflicting Priorities in Setting National Parks Policy and the Paradox of Judicial Activism for Recreational Business; The Swift Rise of Coalbed MEthane Mining in the West: Requiring a Careful Analysis Before Development Starts; The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA)- Whose Settlement Was It? An Overview of Salient Issues; ANCSA Unrealized: Our Lives are not Measured in Dollars; Commentary on Sovereignty: The Other Alaska Native Claim; Alaska Natives and the "New Harpoon": Economic Performance of the ANCSA Regional Corporations; The Environmental Front: Cultural Warfare in the West; NAGPRA: A Look Back Through the Litigation; NEPA Alternatives Analysis: The Evolving Exclusion of Remote and Speculative Alternatives; Xenoestrogens: LEgal Implications and Obstacles for Detection and Relief of Estrogen-Mimicking Compounds; Salmon, Steelhead, and Dams in the Pacific Northwest and the Endangered Species Act; Clean Air Rules of 2004: Motivation, Impacts, and Concerns; An Additional Rule: Defining the "Addition of a Pollutant" under the Clean Water Act