Austin D.J. Gerken
Senior Attorney
Featured In
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Day in the Life of Environmental Attorney DJ Gerken Blue Ridge Outdoors Magazine, September 2007
- Expertise on Southern Appalachian national forest and transportation and growth issues.
- Primary focus on national forest protection, transportation and growth in western North Carolina.
- Law clerk for Juge H. Emory Widner, US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Davidson College; Master's of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia; U.VA School of Law; editorial board, Virginia Law Review.
- Asheville Office
In Their Own Words
- Asheville Office in the Heart of the Southern Appalachians SELC Newsletter, Summer 2008
SELC Cases
- Western North Carolina Growth Growing pains of rural countires as development overwhelms communities and nature
- Interstates 3 and 14 SELC joins with citizens in opposing massive interstate projects
- Tellico Off-Road Vehicle Area (NC/TN) SELC joins sportsmen, other conservationists in protecting native trout streams in Nantahala National Forest
- Globe Timber Sale Logging Project Threatens Scenic Views and Old Growth in the Pisgah National Forest
- Roadless Areas in the National Forests
- Logging in South Appalachian National Forests Ecological Treasures at Risk in the Southern Appalachians
- Corridor K: Putting the Brakes on an Outdated Highway Plan Plan Would Jeopardize Unbroken Mountain Forests