Char Miller

The third wave of conservation legislation began with the Wilderness Act of 1964 and crested with the 1976 passage of the National Forest Management Act, but the impact that this flurry of legislation has had continues to reverberate on the ground and in political arena. We will explore several of these laws and their ongoing influences and conclude with a look at the current administration’s efforts to disrupt these initiatives and the federal agencies whose management they regulated.

Speaker Biography

Char Miller – W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College

Char Miller is the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His most recent books include The Yale School of the Environment: The First 125 Years (2026), Burn Scars (2024), Natural Consequences (2022), and West Side Rising (2021). He has written extensively about the U.S. Forest Service and other federal land-management agencies, as well as the Society of American Foresters, and is the author of Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism (2001)