Michael C. Blumm

Publications

• Tribal Co-Management on Ceded Lands: A New Era?
  61 TULSA L. REV. 91 (2025) · Tulsa Law Review · 2025
• Treaty Justice: Charles Wilkinson's Homage to the Boldt Decision
  48 PUB. LAND & RESOURCES L. REV. (2025) · Public Land & Resources Law Review · 2025
• A Half-Century of Pacific Salmon Saving Efforts: A Primer on Law, Policy, and Biology
  64 NAT. RESOURCES J. 137 (2024) · Natural Resources Journal · 2024
• Tribal Consultation: Toward Meaningful Collaboration with the Federal Government
  33 COLO. ENVTL. L.J. (2022) · Colorado Environmental Law Journal · 2022
• THE MISTAKE ON THE SNAKE: THE LOWER SNAKE RIVER DAMS
  58 IDAHO L. REV. (2022) · Idaho Law Review · 2022
• The Public Trust and the Chicago Lakefront: Review of Kearney & Merrill’s <em>Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago</em> (Cornell U. Press, 2021)
  11 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 315 (2022) · Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law · 2022
• Emerging Best Practices in International Atmospheric Trust Case Law
  2022 UTAH L. REV. (2022) · Utah Law Review · 2022
• Right-Sizing the Supreme Court: A History of Congressional Changes
  72 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 9 (2021) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2021
• The Public Trust Doctrine Fifty Years After Sax and Some Thoughts on Its Future
  44 PUB. LAND & RESOURCES L. REV. (2021) · Public Land & Resources Law Review · 2021
• The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act at 50: Overlooked Watershed Protection
  9 MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 1 (2020) · Michigan Journal of Environmental & Administrative Law · 2020

• Democratizing Treaty Fishing Rights: Denying Fossil-Fuel Exports In The Pacific Northwest
  30 COLO. ENVTL. L.J. (2019) · Colorado Environmental Law Journal · 2019
• Revisiting Background Principles in Takings Litigation
  71 FLA. L. REV. 1165 (2019) · Florida Law Review · 2019
• The Fight over Columbia River Basin Salmon Spills and the Future of the Lower Snake River Dams
  9 WASH. J. ENVTL. L. & POL'Y 1 (2019) · Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy · 2019
• The Nation's First Forester-in-Chief: The Overlooked Role of FDR and the Environment -- Review of Douglas Brinkley's Rightful Heritage: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Land of America
  33 FLA. ST. U. J. LAND USE & ENVTL. L. (2018) · Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law · 2018
• The Clinton Wetlands Plan: No Net Gain in Wetlands Protection
  9 FLA. ST. U. J. LAND USE & ENVTL. L. (2018) · Florida State University Journal of Land Use and Environmental Law · 2018
• “Coordinating” with the Federal Government: Assessing County Efforts to Control Decisionmaking on Public Lands
  38 PUB. LAND & RESOURCES L. REV. (2017) · Public Land & Resources Law Review · 2017
• Indian Treaty Fishing Rights and the Environment: Affirming the Right to Habitat Protection and Restoration
  92 WASH. L. REV. 1 (2017) · Washington Law Review · 2017
• The Property Clause and Its Discontents: Lessons from the Malheur Occupation
  43 ECOLOGY L. Q. 781 (2017) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2017
• "No Ordinary Lawsuit": Climate Change, Due Process, and the Public Trust Doctrine
  67 AM. U. L. REV. (2017) · American University Law Review · 2017
• Federal Reserved Water Rights as a Rule of Law
  52 IDAHO L. REV. 369 (2016) · Idaho Law Review · 2016
• Horne v. Department of Agriculture: Expanding Per Se Takings While Endorsing State Sovereign Ownership of Wildlife
  75 MD. L. REV. 657 (2016) · Maryland Law Review · 2016
• The Struggle over the Columbia River Gorge: Establishing and Governing the Country's Largest Scenic Area
  4 WASH. J. ENVTL. L. & POL'Y 287 (2015) · Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy · 2015
• Shared Sovereignty: The Role of Expert Agencies in Environmental Law
  42 ECOLOGY L. Q. 609 (2015) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2015
• Federal Wild Lands Policy In The Twenty-First Century: What A Long, Strange Trip It'S Been
  25 COLO. ENVTL. L.J. (2014) · Colorado Environmental Law Journal · 2014
• Lands Council, Karuk Tribe, and the Great Environmental Divide in the Ninth Circuit
  54 NAT. RESOURCES J. 1 (2014) · Natural Resources Journal · 2014
• Endangered Species Act Listings and Climate Change: Avoiding the Elephant in the Room
  20 ANIMAL L. REV. 277 (2014) · Animal Law Review · 2014
• Salmon Hatcheries as fish Factories: Forgetting the Lessons of Leopold
  4 SEATTLE J. ENVTL. L. (2014) · Seattle Journal of Environmental Law · 2014
• The Public Trust in Wildlife
  2013 UTAH L. REV. (2013) · Utah Law Review · 2013
• The Overlooked Role of the National Environmental Policy Act in Protecting the Western Environment: NEPA in the Ninth Circuit
  2 WASH. J. ENVTL. L. & POL'Y 193 (2012) · Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy · 2012
• Present at the Creation: The 1910 Big Burn and the Formative Days of the U.S. Forest Service
  32 PUB. LAND & RESOURCES L. REV. (2011) · Public Land & Resources Law Review · 2011
• The Florida Beach Case and the Road to Judicial Takings
  35 WM. & MARY ENVTL. L. & POL'Y REV. 713 (2011) · William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review · 2011
• The Public Trust Doctrine and Private Property: The Accommodation Principle
  27 PACE ENVTL. L. REV. 649 (2010) · Pace Environmental Law Review · 2010
• The Public Trust Doctrine - A Twenty-First Century Concept
  16 UC L. ENV'T J. 105 (2010) · UC Law Environmental Journal · 2010
• Background Principles, Takings, and Libertarian Property: A Reply to Professor Huffman
  37 ECOLOGY L. Q. 805 (2010) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 2010

• Indian Treaty Fishing Rights and Habitat Protection: The Martinez Decision Supplies a Resounding Judicial Reaffirmation
  49 NAT. RESOURCES J. 653 (2009) · Natural Resources Journal · 2009
• From Martz to the Twenty-First Century: A Half- Century of Natural Resources Law Casebooks and Pedagogy
  78 U. COLO. L. REV. 647 (2007) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2007
• Enacting Libertarian Property: Oregon's Measure 37 and Its Implications
  85 DENV. L. REV. 279 (2007) · Denver Law Review · 2007
• Norton v. SUWA and the Unraveling of Federal Public Land Planning
  18 DUKE ENVTL. L. & POL'Y F. 105 (2007) · Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum · 2007
• Justice Kennedy and the Environment: Property, States' Rights, and a Persistent Search for Nexus
  82 WASH. L. REV. 667 (2007) · Washington Law Review · 2007
• Not Much Less Necessary... Than the Atmosphere They Breathed: Salmon, Indian Treaties, and the Supreme Court - A Centennial Remembrance of United States v. Winans and Its Enduring Significant
  46 NAT. RESOURCES J. 489 (2006) · Natural Resources Journal · 2006
• Origins of Animal Law: Three Perspectives
  10 ANIMAL L. REV. 1 (2004) · Animal Law Review · 2004
• Reversing the Winters Doctrine?: Denying Reserved Water Rights for Idaho Wilderness and It's Implications
  73 U. COLO. L. REV. 173 (2002) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2002

• Salmon and the Endangered Species Act: Lessons from the Columbia Basin
  74 WASH. L. REV. 519 (1999) · Washington Law Review · 1999
• The Indian Treaty Piscary Profit and Habitat Protection in the Pacific Northwest: A Property Rights Approach
  69 U. COLO. L. REV. 407 (1998) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1998
• The Proposed Transfer of BLM Timber Lands to the State of Oregon: Environmental and Economic Questions
  32 LAND & WATER L. REV. 353 (1997) · Land & Water Law Review · 1997
• Renouncing the Public Trust Doctrine: An Assessment of the Validity of Idaho House Bill 794
  24 ECOLOGY L. Q. 461 (1997) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 1997
• The Amphibious Salmon: The Evolution of Ecosystem Management in the Columbia River Basin
  24 ECOLOGY L. Q. 653 (1997) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 1997
• Environment, Economy, and Community in the Pacific Northwest
  17 PUB. LAND & RESOURCES L. REV. (1996) · Public Land & Resources Law Review · 1996
• The Case Against Transferring BLM Lands to the States
  7 FORDHAM ENVTL. L. REV. 387 (1996) · Fordham Environmental Law Review · 1996
• Ancient Forests and the Supreme Court: Issuing a Blank Check for Appropriation Riders
  43 URB. L. ANN.; J. URB. & CONTEMP. L. 35 (1993) · Urban Law Annual ; Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law · 1993
• Unconventional Waters: The Quiet Revolution in Federal and Tribal Minimum Streamflows
  19 ECOLOGY L. Q. 445 (1992) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 1992

• Federal Wetlands Protection Under the Clean Water Act: Regulatory Ambivalence, Intergovernmental Tension, and a Call For Reform
  60 U. COLO. L. REV. 695 (1989) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1989
• NEPA Meets the Northwest Power Act (and Prevails): The Ninth Circuit Orders an EIS on the Bonneville Power Administration's Power Sale Contracts
  25 NAT. RESOURCES J. 1005 (1985) · Natural Resources Journal · 1985
• The Northwest's Hydroelectric Heritage: Prologue to the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act
  58 WASH. L. REV. 175 (1983) · Washington Law Review · 1983
• Wetlands Preservation, Fish and Wildlife Protection, and 404 Regulation: A Response
  18 LAND & WATER L. REV. 469 (1983) · Land & Water Law Review · 1983
• The Clean Water Act's Section 404 Permit Program Enters Its Adolescence: An Institutional and Programmatic Perspective
  8 ECOLOGY L. Q. 409 (1980) · Ecology Law Quarterly · 1980