"For hundreds of years, the American taxpayer has subsidized private use of publicly owned land for mining, logging and grazing -- and the environmental degradation that goes with it.

"We have to find some way to break that link."

Johanna Wald is a senior attorney at NRDC and the Land Program Director. Her primary area of expertise is federal land and resource management, and she works on issues involving biological diversity, endangered species and protection of natural values.

In 1993, Johanna was named one of ten Pew Scholars in Conservation and the Environment, and in 1992, received a National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation. She has an A.B. from Cornell University in history and an LL.B. from Yale Law School.

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