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Workable Solutions to Environmental Conflict

Environmental conflicts can present particularly complex problems with serious consequences.

The U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, an independent and impartial federal program, has a mission and history of helping people find workable solutions to tough environmental conflicts ... anywhere in the U.S.

Conflict may be inevitable, but there are ways to turn conflict into collaboration. We can help you move forward together.




Examples of Improving Environmental Decision Making

All Case Briefs

case image BLM Scattered Apples Timber Sale Mediation

Together with a conservation group, residents of Williams, Oregon filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over a timber sale. This led the BLM and other affected parties to request the assistance of the U.S. Institute. The U.S. Institute worked ...read more




 

Politics and issues come and go, but in the end, we'll all be remembered for the way we treat other people.
Morris K. Udall

Did you know...?

Morris K. Udall The U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution is a program of the Morris K. Udall Foundation, an independent federal agency based in Tucson, Arizona.

The Udall Foundation was the fourth federal educational foundation established by Congress. The others are the Goldwater, Truman and Madison Foundations. Like those foundations, the Udall Foundation grants college scholarships and fellowships. It also conducts the Native American Congressional Internship program each summer in Washington, DC.