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VOLUME 27, NUMBER 4

Note to Readers: In addition to The Environmental Forum, the Environmental Law Institute publishes a number of periodicals and reports that ELI Associates may not ordinarily see. For this special Summer Reading Issue, we present the best of the Institute’s work in the last year, adapted for a magazine format.

ELI Press | The Problem of Scale

Headnote: Communities, public agencies, and developers that make habitat conservation an important objective of their plans, policies, and projects will be increasingly important conservation agents.

By Rebecca L. Kihslinger and James M. McElfish Jr.
Environmental Law Institute

Research & Policy | Stretching Supplies in a Prior-Appropriation World

Headnote: Recent experience and most forecasts suggest that the West will face unprecedented water management challenges in the coming decades. If the objective is doing more with less, the law should allow and indeed support that end.

By Adam Schempp
Environmental Law Institute

Research & Policy | Planning for Our Oceans’ Future

Headnote: No individual tool can single-handedly support coastal and marine spatial planning. Rather, state and federal agencies and tribes will need to build from existing laws, regulations, and policies that authorize or require place-based designations, activity restrictions, consultation, and permitting procedures.

By Kathryn Mengerink
Environmental Law Institute

National Wetlands Newsletter | Corporate Shell Games

Headnote: Determining responsibility for wetland mitigation is not always a straight-forward process. A recent real-life example highlights the need for regulators to understand corporate structure in dealing with the variety of legal entities that can assume responsibility for a site.

By Royal C. Gardner and Theresa Pulley Radwan
Stetson University College of Law

Environmental Law Reporter | Paying the Farm Bill

Headnote: How one statute has radically degraded the natural environment and how a newfound emphasis on sustainability is the key to reviving the ecosystem.

By William S. Eubanks II
Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal