2016 Plenary - Historical Perspectives on the Public Lands Debate in the American West 

2016 Utah State History Conference
Historical Perspectives on the Public Lands Debate in the American West
Leisl Carr Childers is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern Iowa where she coordinates the Public History program and teaches the American West.
Joseph E. Taylor III is a professor of history at Simon Fraser University. He has written broadly about gentrification and the struggles to control access to natural resources. He is currently mapping the history of transfer payments to western counties for activities occurring on federal lands.