Turtle Talk

Hillary Hoffman has posted “Collaborative Management of Bears Ears National Monument: Perspectives from the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition” on SSRN.

Here is the abstract:

Tribal collaborative management of the Bears Ears National Monument is not new, but in its most recent iteration, it has only been recently recognized as a viable management framework.  This article explores the meaning of that re-recognition to the five Tribal Nations of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition, an organization that was formed to re-establish those ancestral connections and support the ongoing collaborative management of the Monument by the Bears Ears Commission and the two federal agencies charged with the legal mandate to protect this cultural landscape: the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.