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The law of how we use nature - timber, mining, bioversity, fisheries, water rights, and agriculture. Also an introduction to the historical and constitutional geography of American public lands: the national parks, forests, wilderness system, and grazing lands, and disputes over federal versus local control of these. There is special attention to the historical and political origins of our competing ideas of how nature matters and what we should do with it, from economically productive use to outdoor recreation to preserving the natural world for its own sake. Attention also to the complicated interplay of science and law.

Spring 2017

Course Number	Course Credits	Evaluation Method	Instructor
368.01	Course Credits 2	Final Exam, option Research paper option, 25+ pages	Jedediah Purdy
Sakai site: https://sakai.duke.edu/portal/site/LAW.368.01.Sp17
Email list: LAW.368.01.Sp17@sakai.duke.edu