Eric T. Freyfogle is the Max L. Rowe Professor of Law at the University of Illinois. He has written widely for professional and general audiences on land ownership, natural resources law, and environmental policy. He is the author of Bounded People, Boundless Lands (1998), winner of the 1999 Adult Nonfiction Award of the Society of Midland Authors, and co-editor of For the Health of the Land (1999).