Events

Many Americans use public lands for recreation and business but don’t understand how those lands came to be in the public domain.

Join Walt Dabney, former National Park Service Superintendent and Texas State Park Director, at the Grouse Mountain Lodge in Whitefish.

Learn about:

• The origin story of public lands;
• The US Constitution and public lands;
• Statehood acts/state constitutions and public lands;
• How public lands became privately owned;
• Why most public lands are in the West;
• The creation of the US Forest Service, National Park Service, and the Bureau of Land Management;
• The economic value of public lands;
• Efforts to transfer public lands from public ownership.