DNRC Forestry and Trust Land Management Divisions
Supervising Attorney:Mark Phares
Faculty Supervisor:
Professor Elizabeth Kronk
406.243.6781
elizabeth.kronk@umontana.edu
Academic Year – Maximum of 1 student
Summer – Maximum of 1 student
Counsel for the Montana Department of Conservation (“DNRC”) Forestry
and Trust Land Management Divisions, is responsible for conducting a wide array
of legal services, including prosecuting and defending laws suits, conducting
administrative hearings, drafting contracts and rights-of-way, and providing
day-to-day legal advice to agency personnel. DNRC Clinical Students would
conduct and/or assist with many of these legal services, and would conduct
a host of legal research and drafting projects.
The DNRC’s Forestry Division has responsibility suppressing wildland
fires, and for maintaining the health of Montana’s forests. It
does so through the administration of programs for community forestry, streamside
management zones, and the reduction of hazards related to the harvest of forest
products on private property.
The DNRC’s Trust Land Management Division manages over five million
acres of surface land and 6.2 million acres of minerals lands. It holds
these lands in trust for the financial benefit of several State of Montana
institutions as provided in Montana’s Enabling Act. State trust
land uses range from forest management, real-estate management in the form
of residential, cabinsite and commercial leases, agricultural and grazing management,
and oil and gas development.
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