Paige Wagar is a Master of Forestry-JD dual degree student at Yale School of the Environment and Vermont Law and Graduate School. Childhood camping trips in the Eastern Sierra Nevada planted seeds of appreciation for the land; seeds that later bloomed into a deep personal and professional commitment to public land protection. Paige is interested in how the law frustrates—or facilitates—relationships to the land, especially in rural communities and on public lands in the American West. Before graduate school, Paige worked for the National Park Service’s Pacific West Land Resources Program, where she oversaw conservation real estate projects in California, Hawaiʻi, American Samoa, and Guam. She also worked with the U.S. Forest Service on wilderness area management on the Ozark-St. Francis National Forest. Since being in graduate school, Paige has clerked for the Yurok Tribe, The Trust for Public Land, and the Natural Resources Defense Council. She holds a B.S. from Cornell University, where she double majored in Development Sociology and Environmental Science. Paige loves running in the woods and backpacking with her dog.