American Grasslands - Reckoning With the Law and Policy That Shaped Agriculture in the West

"This book highlights key laws and policies that have shaped western agriculture, using stories of famous and lesser known individual and communal agriculture models. It highlights problems these laws have created, particularly related to access and ownership of resources, and makes practical recommendations for legal and policy reform"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1 . Spanish land grants and the Cielo Vista ranch; 2. The Doctrine of Discovery, and Vermejo Park reserve; 3. Allotment laws, trusteeship, and Blackfeet ranching; 4. Black homesteading, and the Dearfield colony; 5. Treaties, homesteading, and the Carpenter ranch; 6. Wildlife conservation laws and the Taylor Lawrence ranch; 7. Grazing law, water law, and the Pine Creek ranch; 8. Sage-Grouse conservation and the West Lake ranch; 9. Malheur Wildlife Refuge and the 'War on Rangelands'; 10. The reckoning: law and policy reform and the path forward; Conclusion.

About the author

Hillary M. Hoffmann is an author, legal scholar, and nonprofit leader with expertise in natural resources and Indigenous law and policy. She has been a law professor since 2008, winning the Richard L. Brooks Prize for Distinguished Faculty Scholarship in 2020. She is also the co-author of A Third Way: Decolonizing the Laws of Indigenous Cultural Protection (2020).

Summary

This book highlights key laws and policies that have shaped western agriculture, using stories of famous and lesser known individual and communal agriculture models. It highlights problems these laws have created, particularly related to access and ownership of resources, and makes practical recommendations for legal and policy reform.

Foreword

Compelling and integrated stories of agriculture in the west with achievable recommendations for future law and policy reforms.

Product details

• Authors: Hillary M. Hoffmann, Hillary M. (Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coal Hoffmann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781009573917
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0957391-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, LAW / Agricultural, Indigenous Peoples, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmental policy & protocols, US West, Western & Pacific Coast states, Environmental policy and protocols, Regional government, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism, Indigenous people: governance and politics, agricultural law