The Alexander Blewett III School of Law intern works with FLBS personnel to tangibly link science with environmental policy and law. Work focuses on environmental policy issues in the cross-border Flathead and Kootenai River Basins, and greater transboundary Crown of the Continent region. Current issues interns have worked on include:
- Legal context, data needs, natural resource damages assessment, and environmental impact assessment of mountain-top removal coal mining in the transboundary Elk/Kootenai River Basin
- Indian Law with respect to traditional territory uses, treaty rights and federal consultation for environmental impacts in the transboundary Flathead and Elk/Kootenai River Basins
- Superfund law, data and interpretation through the lens of local and regional case studies
- International Treaty across the US and Canada
- Clean Water Act; rule-making, implementation and enforcement and legal standing as pertains to compliance, enforcement, containment and long-term management
- The interface of protective land designations, jurisdictional mandate and environmental issues that cross jurisdictional boundaries (e.g.; oil train transport, aquatic invasive species, T&E species, climate change)
*We accept a University of Montana Law Intern each summer. More information about how to apply can be found
here