Dec 07, 2021
Bears Ears National Monument
John Ruple, Dean of the College of Law at the University of Utah

John Ruple is a Research Professor of Law and Stegner Center Fellow at the Wallace Stegner Center for Land Resources and the Environment where he works on public lands and water resource management.  John’s current research focuses on national monument designation and management, state efforts to control federal public lands, water resource allocation, and empirical assessing impact reduction attributable to compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act.