Resolving Natural Resource Conflicts Through Alternative Dispute Resolution: A Case Study of the Timber Fish Wildlife Agreement in Washington State‪.‬

Introduction Environmental conflict is increasing. In 1992, for example, the British Columbia government, besieged by land use disputes, established an independent agency, the Commission on Resources and Environment (CORE), with a mandate to end the increasingly disruptive valley-by-valley land use conflicts. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports that over 80% of its new regulations are challenged in court (Pritzker 1990). U.S. Forest Service planning, moreover, has been consistently plagued by legal and administrative challenges for the last two decades (Wondolleck 1988).