The Center of the American West and the Public Lands Foundation (PLF) announce a bicentennial event, The Nation Possessed: The Conflicting Claims on America’s Public Lands, Sept. 12-14 at CU-Boulder, to reckon with the history of the federal government’s management and allocation of the public domain, and to find guidance in the past for the future. FREE events include: “Reflections of a Form BLM Director,” with Bob Abbey and Timothy Egan; and a Reenactment/Preenactment event with Clay Jenkinson and Bryce Townsend, and more.