Join the Wyss Scholars for Conservation of the American West, the Westies,
Take Action Tuesday, Politics SIG, Conservation Biology SIG, Natural Resources
Extraction SIG, and the Yale Student Environmental Coalition for a student organized panel discussion on National Monuments and strategies for their protection. Dinner will be provided. A reception with beer and wine to follow at 6:45pm in the Knob.
panelists:
Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk, former Councilwoman of Colorado’s Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the former Co-Chair of the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition – a historic partnership of five Tribes that united to establish Utah’s iconic Bears Ears National Monument.
Jonathan Thompson, Editor at High Country News.
Robert Verchick, Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and the Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola University in New Orleans.
moderator:
Dr. Ingrid Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.