Environmental law is changing, and those changes are driving a transformation in the character of environmental lawyering. Although the basic federal statutory background has remained static for the past decade or more, environmental protection and natural resource management as practiced "on the ground" are now awash in innovation, reform, and reinvention. The most significant trend is toward collaborative decision-making and integrated environmental management at local and regional ecosystem scales;3 a development that has momentous consequences for the practice of environmental law.
