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KAREN
BUDD-FALEN |
Karen Budd-Falen is an attorney,
and with her husband Frank Falen, is the owner of the Budd-Falen Law
Offices, L.L.C. located in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Before moving back to
Wyoming, Karen served for three years in the Reagan Administration,
U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., as a Special
Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals
Management. She later served as a law clerk to the Assistant
Solicitor for Water and Power. Karen has also worked as an attorney
at Mountain States Legal Foundation, a conservative public interest
legal foundation located in Denver, Colorado. |
Karen represents private property
owners, ranching and farming organizations, and local governments.
Karen has assisted local governments in asserting their rights of
cooperation and coordination in federal agency decisions, private
property owners in protecting their Constitutionally guaranteed
property rights, ranches and other multiple users in supporting
grazing rights and multiple use on federal/public lands and exposing
radical environmental groups’ abuse of the legal system and attorney
fee shifting statutes.
Karen's most recent
publications include, How To Survive the Bureaucratic Maze - A Guide
to the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Appeals Process,
1989; Ecosystem Management: Will National Forests be "Managed" Into
National Parks?, 1991; The Right to Graze Livestock on the Federal
Lands: The Historical Development of Western Grazing Rights, Idaho
Law Review, Spring, 1994; Protecting Community Stability and Local
Economies: Opportunities for County Government Influence in Federal
Decision and Policy Making Processes, Whitman College, 1996; and
Counterpoint: Opportunities Lost and Opportunities Gained:
Separating Truth from Myth in the Western Ranching Debate, Karen
Budd-Falen editor, Lewis and Clark Law School Environmental Law,
2006.
Karen has been featured in Newsweek Magazine's "Who's Who: 20 for
the Future" for her work on property rights issues (September 30,
1991). Karen was awarded Wyoming’s Outstanding Ag Citizen from the
State of Wyoming’s agriculture citizens in 2001, the “Always There
Helping” award from the New Mexico Stock Growers Association in 2003
and the “Bud’s Contract” award from the New Mexico Public Lands
Council in 2006. Karen has presented testimony before the U.S. House
of Representatives, Subcommittee on Forest Health, Washington, D.C.,
April 8, 1997, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on
Resources, October 26, 1998, and the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Resources Task Force on Improving the National
Environmental Policy Act, August 1, 2005. Karen has also testified
before interim committees of the Wyoming Legislature.
Karen is an active volunteer and mentor for Future Farmers of
America (“FFA”) and We the People competitions. Karen grew up as a
fifth generation rancher on a family-owned ranch in Big Piney,
Wyoming. She received her undergraduate degrees and her law degree
in 1987 from the University of Wyoming. Karen and Frank have two
children, Isaac and Sarah.
300 East 18th Street • Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001 • (307)632-5105
karen@buddfalen.com
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