David Garbett is a staff attorney with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance in Salt Lake City, Utah. His practice focuses on public lands law, principally as it relates to the Bureau of Land Management. His litigation and administrative work has involved oil and gas leasing and development, air quality issues, wilderness identification and management, rights of way claims, and resource management planning. Mr. Garbett earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2006. He also holds an M.S. in economics from Utah State University and a B.A. in history from Brigham Young University.
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The Future of Publicly Owned Lands
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The Future of Publicly Owned Lands - Podcast
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