By Emery Cowan | Arizona Daily Sun
The debate about federal public lands control that fueled the armed standoff at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was at the center of a conference of wildlife scientists and managers in Flagstaff on Friday.
“Who Will Manage the Future of Our Public Lands?” was the subject of the plenary session of the annual meeting of the Arizona and New Mexico chapters of The Wildlife Society, hosted at Little America Hotel.
The event brought out more than 400 attendees as well as a group of speakers that included State Rep. Brenda Barton, Coconino County Supervisor Mandy Metzger, Montana State Sen. Jennifer Fielder and U.S. Forest Service regional director Steve Hattenbach.
