BHA Stewards On Stage Presents: Taking Back or Just Taking? A Conversation About the Law and Public Lands in Utah

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BHA Stewards On Stage Presents: "Taking Back or Just Taking? A Conversation About the Law and Public Lands in Utah"

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December 4

Starting at 6:30pm

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Natural History Museum of Utah Swaner Forum

Salt Lake City, UT

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event_title: BHA Stewards On Stage Presents: "Taking Back or Just Taking? A Conversation About the Law and Public Lands in Utah"

event_time_zone: America/Denver

event_start: December 04, 2024 18:30

event_duration: 150

event_end: December 04, 2024 21:00

event_address: 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, United States

event_description: Join us December 4th 6:30 p.m. via livestream and at the Natural History Museum of Utah, Swaner Forum, for an engaging conversation that dives deep into Utahs current public lands lawsuit.Check in with the BHA Utah Chapter as we wrap up an eventful year, and hear how you can get involved in key issues.https://www.backcountryhunters.org/utah_public_lands_lawsuit_how_can_i_get_involvedOur guest speaker will be John Ruple Research Professor of Law at the University of Utah, moderated by past BHA Chair and longtime public lands advocate, Josh Lenart.Light beverages and snacks will be available for those attending in-person.While this event is free to attend, physical space is limited so please RSVP if you are attending in person! This speaker series event will be streamed live on BHAs YouTube and Facebook if you are unable to attend in person.Feel free to come early and check out the amazing Natural History Museum for only $6About our speaker: John Ruple is a Research Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law and Director of the Law and Policy Program at the College’s Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources & the Environment.He returned to the University of Utah in after serving as Senior Counsel in the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Biden Administration where his work focused on federal public land management and preservation, mining law and critical mineral supply chain reform, transnational water pollution control, and efforts to improve environmental permitting efficacy.John started his career as a Forest Service and BLM seasonal employee where, among other things, he supervised a work crew of federal felons. Before going to law school John spent four years managing environmental analyses and permitting for ski area developments on National Forest System lands. As a lawyer he worked for a private firm specializing in water rights permitting and litigation, in Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.’s public lands office, in the federal government, and as an academic.John has published widely on topics including schemes to wrest control over public lands from the federal government and the legality of efforts to reduce the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument. His work appears in leading academic journals including the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Nature Sustainability, and U.C. Berkeley’s Ecology Law Quarterly.He is a self-proclaimed dirtbag and ski bum who grew tired of sleeping in his truck but who never outgrew his love for public lands. He is an angler who builds his own fly rods and ties his own flies only to see them gather dust. He blames his dog for this sin because she is the only lab who hates water.

BHA Stewards On Stage Presents: "Taking Back or Just Taking? A Conversation About the Law and Public Lands in Utah"

Posted by | October 25, 2024

Join us December 4th @ 6:30 p.m. via livestream and at the Natural History Museum of Utah, Swaner Forum, for an engaging conversation that dives deep into Utah's current public lands lawsuit.

Check in with the BHA Utah Chapter as we wrap up an eventful year, and hear how you can get involved in key issues.

https://www.backcountryhunters.org/utah_public_lands_lawsuit_how_can_i_get_involved

Our guest speaker will be John Ruple Research Professor of Law at the University of Utah, moderated by past BHA Chair and longtime public lands advocate, Josh Lenart.

Light beverages and snacks will be available for those attending in-person.

While this event is free to attend, physical space is limited so please RSVP if you are attending in person! This speaker series event will be streamed live on BHA's YouTube and Facebook if you are unable to attend in person.

Feel free to come early and check out the amazing Natural History Museum for only $6

About our speaker: John Ruple is a Research Professor of Law at the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law and Director of the Law and Policy Program at the College’s Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources & the Environment.

He returned to the University of Utah in after serving as Senior Counsel in the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Biden Administration where his work focused on federal public land management and preservation, mining law and critical mineral supply chain reform, transnational water pollution control, and efforts to improve environmental permitting efficacy.

John started his career as a Forest Service and BLM seasonal employee where, among other things, he supervised a work crew of federal felons. Before going to law school John spent four years managing environmental analyses and permitting for ski area developments on National Forest System lands. As a lawyer he worked for a private firm specializing in water rights permitting and litigation, in Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.’s public lands office, in the federal government, and as an academic.

John has published widely on topics including schemes to wrest control over public lands from the federal government and the legality of efforts to reduce the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument. His work appears in leading academic journals including the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Nature Sustainability, and U.C. Berkeley’s Ecology Law Quarterly.

He is a self-proclaimed dirtbag and ski bum who grew tired of sleeping in his truck but who never outgrew his love for public lands. He is an angler who builds his own fly rods and ties his own flies only to see them gather dust. He blames his dog for this sin because she is the only lab who hates water.