Quinney College of Law. He is also a faculty affiliate with the University of Utah’s Institute for Clean & Secure Energy, and the Global Change and Sustainability Center. His work focuses on public land and natural resource management, including national monument designation, federal public land planning and management, efforts to transfer federal public lands to the states, federal-state land exchange reform, and environmental impact review efficacy. Prior to joining the Stegner Center, Professor Ruple served as a policy analyst in Governor Jon Huntsman Jr.’s Public Land Policy Coordinating Office, as an environmental litigator in private practice, and as a NEPA contractor and project manager specializing in permitting for ski areas operating on National Forest System lands.