Past Events
View a list of all NRLC’s events since its beginnings in 1980 through April 2011. Downloadable reference material is available in the On-line Library (a searchable database).
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Martz Annual Conference: Navigating the Future of the Colorado River
Conference PowerPoints
June 9, 2010
Doug Kenney: Introduction - Colorado River 2005-2010
Panel A: Terry Fulp | Holly Hartman |
Panel B: no PowerPoint presentations
Panel C: Steve Fitten | Jennifer Gimbel | Mario Lopez Perez
Panel D: Doug Kenney | Sarah Bates
June 10, 2010
Panel E: Joe Feller | Robert Adler
Panel F: Sarah Bates | Bonnie Colby | Robert Wigington | Eric Kuhn | Les Lampe
Panel G: Larry Macdonnell
Speaker Handouts
Sarah Bates | Lynn Scarlett | Drew Beckwith | Les Lampe | Larry MacDonnell | Robert Wigington
Conference Follow-up:
Red Lodge Clearinghouse:
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U.S./Mexico relations, the Compact and towing icebergs at the Colorado River conference
High Country News:
- Pulse of the river
- Where's the conservation?
- Rare accord marks opening of Colorado River conference
The Colorado Independent:
- Water shortages in the West: ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet’
April 6, 2011
Interbasin Compact Committee (IBCC): Past and Present
Presented by Alexandra L. Davis, Former Director of IBCC negotiations and current Assistant Director of Water for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources
HOT TOPIC co-sponsored by the Natural Resources Law Center and the Colorado Bar Association-Water Law Section
February 14, 2011
Adapting to Climate change: lessons learned from Australia
A Conversation with Water Management Representatives from Colorado and Australia
Presenters:
Will Fargher, Australian National Water Commission (Presentation [pdf])
Chris Arnott, Managing Director and founder of Alluvium Consulting (Presentation [pdf])
December 2, 2010
Schultz Distinguished Lecture
Kristina M. Johnson, Former U.S. Under Secretary of Energy
“Addressing the Nation’s Energy Challenges”
The Natural Resources Law Center is co-sponsoring the 3rd University of Colorado Law School’s Schultz Distinguished Lecture.
This event will be held on Thursday, December 2nd (at 5 p.m.) at the University of Colorado at Boulder Law School in the Wolf Law Building, with a reception to follow.
Background
Dr. Johnson was appointed by President Obama to the position of Under Secretary for Energy in 2009. This position has wide responsibilities for the DOE Offices of Fossil Energy, Nuclear Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Electricity Delivery, and Energy Reliability, Environment Management, Civilian Radioactive Waste Management and Legacy Management, and the DOE Laboratories associated with energy technologies. In her statement for appointment before the US Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Dr. Johnson stated, “By bridging the gap between basic research, development, and commercial deployment, DOE can deliver technologies that will help to improve our everyday lives and enable us to achieve our long-term energy and climate change goals.”
Prior to her appointment, Dr. Johnson was Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. According to the Washington Post, Dr. Johnson was the first woman to hold this position at Johns Hopkins University. She received her B.S. (with distinction), M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After a NATO post-doctoral fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, she joined the University of Colorado-Boulder’s faculty in 1985 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 1994. Previously she served as the dean of Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering, where she helped to set up interdisciplinary efforts in photonics, bioengineering, energy and the environment.
Dr. Johnson was awarded the John Fritz Medal by the American Association of Engineering Societies, which is considered "the highest award in the engineering profession." Previous recipients of the Fritz Medal include Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and Orville Wright. In 2010, Dr. Johnson was named the Women of Vision Award Winner by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and received the ARCS Foundation Eagle Award for her dedication to science and education. Dr. Johnson holds honorary Doctorates in Science from Tufts University (2010) and the University of Alabama at Huntsville (2009).
Shale Plays in the Intermountain West: Legal & Policy Issues (Grand Hyatt, Denver)
Symposium Materials
Cover | Agenda | Speaker Biographies | Video Archive
Symposium Presentations
Michelle Michot Foss - The Here and Now of U.S. Natural Gas
Richard Nehring - Transforming and Disrupting: Shale Gas and Oil in U.S. Energy Supply (ppt)
Randy Udall, Commentator - Presentation (ppt)
John Curtis - U.S. Shale Gas: Resources, Reserves and $$$ (ppt)
Will Fleckenstein - Shale Drilling and Completions (ppt)
Bruce Kramer - Pooling for Horizontal Wells: Can They Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?
Judy Jordan - Water & Development of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources (ppt)
Katy Dunlap - Development of Shale: Water Resource Concerns & Policy Considerations
Jeremy Nichols - Shale and Air Quality: The View from the Other Side (ppt)
John C. Martin - Evolving Policy on Shale Plays (ppt)
June 2010
31st Annual Summer Conference
The Past, Present, and Future of Our Public Lands: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Public Lands Law Review Commission’s Report: One Third of the Nation's Lands
Conference Details
Presentation Synopses | Speaker Information| Moderators, Panelists & Speakers
KBDI 12 debate with the Natural Resources Law Center Director, Mark Squillace:
http://lawweb.colorado.edu/events/mediaDetails.jsp?id=2502
Conference Presentations
Bernhardt, David - "Chapter 7 of the Commission Report"
Burke, Marcilynn - "Celebrating FLPMA: Land Use Planning at the BLM"
Cables, Rick - "Forest Service Planning at a Crossroads; New Approaches to Old Recommendations"
Feller, Joe - "Livestock Grazing on the Public Lands"
Gheleta, Mike - "Water Management on Public Lands -- Chapter 8 of the PLLRC Report"
Glicksman, Robert - "Climate Change Adaptation and the Federal Lands"
Groene, Scott - "America's Redrock Wilderness"
James, Norm - "The Mexican Spotted Owl Controversy"
Morgan, Ann - "The Evolution of Planning on Public Lands"
Myers, William - "Grazing on the Public Lands"
Power, Tom - "Why Public Lands? A Question Not Addressed 40 Years Ago"
Rasband, Jim - "Second Thoughts About the Antiquitites Act: Does the Process for Public Land Decision-making Have an Ethical Dimension?"
Saunders, Stephen - "Climate Change and Public Lands: Examples from Natonal Parks"
February 5, 2010
The Promise and Peril of Oil Shale
news
NRLC Oil Shale event discussed in LA Times (2-10-10)
Conference Presentations
Bartis, James T. - "Costs and Benefits of Oil Shale Development Bernhardt, David - "The Promise & Peril of Oil Shale: Federal Law & Policy"
Birch, Daniel R. - "Oil Shale Water Needs, State Water Planning and the Colorado River Compact"
Boak, Jeremy, Dr. - "Impacts of Oil Shale on Carbon Emissions"
Burnham, Alan K., PhD. - "The Logistics and Energy Needs of Oil Shale Extraction"
Harding, Benjamin - "Energy Development Water Needs Assessment and Water Supply Alternatives Analysis"
Huntley, Chase - "Promise or Peril? Shale Oil, Energy, and the Region"
Limerick, Patty - "The History of Oil Shale Development & What it Means for the Future"
Miller, Bart - "Water for Oil (Shale)?"
Tupper, Mike - "The Peril of Energy Usage" Udall, Randy - PowerPoint presentation
Vawter, Glenn - "The Promise and Peril of Oil Shale; Costs and Benefits of Development"
Conference Readings
CO comments to BLM on RDD Round II
Ritter-Comments on BLM Oil Shale Regs
http://ceri-mines.org/oilshaleresearch: Colorado Energy Research Institute oil shale research, including links to the full proceedings of the 26th, 27th, and 28th Oil Shale Symposia
"Economies of Shale" - Alan Best
Conference News Articles
08-13-08; "The Promise and Peril of Shale Oil"; New West Network.
08-09; "USGS adds environmental impacts to its energy resource evaluations"; PennEnergy.com
08-06-09; "Oil shale and its not-so-repetitive past"; Headwaters News
10-21-09; "Oil Shale, Greenhouse Gas, and Federal Lands"; Legalplanet.wordpress.com
11-03-09; "51,685 commenters weigh in on BLM's oil-shale lease plans"; GJSentinel.com
11-09-09; "Let Me Get A Big 'Shale, Yeah'"; The Wall Street Journal
June 3-5, 2009
30th Annual Summer Conference:
Western Water Law, Policy, and Management: Ripples Currents, and New Channels for Inquiry
Conference Details
Conference Presentations
Robert Anderson - "Indian Water Rights"
Sarah Bates - "Opportunities: Softer Paths?"
Craig Bell - "Challenges for Reclamation: a Western States’ Perspective"
Kay Brothers - "Status of Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA): Third Intake Into Lake Mead and Groundwater Project"
Rick Cables - "Water Towers in the Balance Time for a New Water Project"
Don Carlson - "Opportunities: Hard, Soft, and Mixed Pathways: Northern Integrated Supply Project; Northern Front Range – Colorado"
Bonnie Colby - "Regional Energy-Water Resilience Under Climate Change"
Amanda Cronin - "Market Based Stream Flow Restoration and Mitigation"
Mike Gheleta - "Groundwater Law and Administration: From Conflict to Reform"
Robert Glennon - "Unquenchable"
Chris Goemans - "Economic Incentives for Demand Reduction"
Stephen Gray - "Climate Change and the Death of Stationarity: A New Era for Western Water?"
Katharine Jacobs - "Groundwater Declines, Climate Change and Approaches to Adaptation"
Melinda Kassen - "Finding Flows: Fish Still Need Water Every Day"
Larry MacDonnell - "Next Evolutionary Steps in State Instream Flow Programs"
Steve Malloch - "Water Footprints: Consciousness Raising Meets Risk Management"
Bart Miller - "Oil Shale Water Use: Upsetting the Apple-cart of River Habitat, Irrigation and Existing Water Rights?"
Jim Murphy - "Rapanos and the Courts: Navigating Through the Fog"
Peter Nichols - "Water Leasing in the Lower Arkansas Valley: the 'Super Ditch Company'”
Jennifer Pitt - "Transboundary Solutions: A Water Trust, Policy, and Environmental Flows for the Colorado River Delta"
Adam Schempp - "Modifying Prior Appropriation: The Spectrum of Experiences"
Mark Squillace - "Rethinking Western Water Law Restoring the Public Interest in Western Water Law"
William Travis - "Agricultural Resilience and Urban Growth: A Closer Look"
Robert Wilkinson - "Integrated Policy, Planning, and Management of Water Resources"
Leo Winternitz - "Delta Overview"
September 10, 2009
The University of Colorado Law School and the Natural Resource Law Center presents: Shultz Distinguished Lecturer, James E. Rogers, Duke Energy President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board.
"A NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY FOR THE 21st CENTURY"
Jim Rogers of Duke Energy—the 3rd largest electric utility holding company in the nation and the 3rd largest emitter of carbon dioxide—will discuss how a comprehensive energy policy could help solve our major energy, economic and environmental challenges.
March 21, 2008
Hot Topics in Natural Resources
June 4-6, 2008
29th Annual Summer Conference
Shifting Baselines & Meridians: Water, Resources, Landscapes, and the Transformation of the American West
Conference Details
Agenda | Conference | Accommodations
Conference Presentations
Sarah Bates - "Bridging the Governance Gap: Straegies to Integrate Water and Land Use Planning"
Gary Bryner - "The Future of Energy: What are the major projections for the U.S. Energy Future, and What are the Implications for the West?"
Jim Holway - "The Urbanizing West: Limits to Water, Limits to Growth"
Doug Larson - "Fuel Choice Determines Transmission"
Alice Madden - "Living With Limits in the West"
Wendy McDermott - "Incorporating Community Values of Sustainability into Resource Management: The Red Lady Case Study"
Janet Neuman - "Beyond Rethinking: Redoing Western Water Law"
J Michael Scott - "Threats to Biological Diversity: Global, Continental, Local"
Mark Squillace - "Rethinking Western Water Law Whatever Happened to the Public Interest?"
Jonathan Thompson - "Paying the Price For Power: When L.A. Turns On the Lights, Northwestern New Mexico Feels It."
Conference Papers
Reed D. Benson - "Rethinking Western Water Law: Instream Flows"
Jim Holway - "The Urbanizing West: Limits to Water, Limits to Growth; “Linking Growth, Land Use and Water”'
Doug Larson - "Fuel Choice Determines Transmission Requirements"
Lora A. Lucero - "Recent Developments in Land Use, Planning and Zoning Law: Connecting Land, Water, and Growth"
Wendy McDermott - "Shifting Baselines & New Meridians – Water, Resources, Landscapes & the Transformation of the American West"
Shaun McGrath - “Water Needs and Strategies for a Sustainable Future”
J. Michael Scott - "Recovery of Imperiled Species Under the Endangered Species Act: The Need For a New Approach"
Jerd Smith - "New Rules for an Old River"
December 11, 2008
Presentation and Workshop on Temporary Water Transfers
December 16, 2008
Hot Topic - Managing Oil & Gas Development in Colorado: The New COGCC Rules
March 16-17
The Climate of Environmental Justice: Taking Stock
June 6-8
28th Annual Summer Conference
Conference Details
Conference Presentations
Cassamassa - "Forest and Rangeland Planning, NEPA Analysis and Decisions"
Cheever - "Forests and Grasslands"
Mike Chiropolos - "The Future of Oil & Gas Development on Federal Lands"
Joe Feller - "NEPA and Public Participation in Grazing Management on Federal Public Lands: The 40-Year Struggle"
Sharon Friedman - "The Roadless Rules and the Roles of States and Communities" Mary Viviano - "The Future of Mineral Development on Federal Lands in the United States: A Case Study of the Roan Plateau Area"
Tim Randle - "Elwha River Restoration Project"
ames R. Rasband - "What’s In a Name? The Story of the Utah Wilderness Reinventory"
William H. Rodgers, Jr. - "Dam Building and Removal on the Elwha: A Prototype of Adaptive Mismanagement and a Tribal Opportunity"
J. B. Ruhl - "The Future Public Law of Private Ecosystems"
Mark Squillace - "Meaningful Engagement – The Public’s Role in Resource Decisions"
Dr. William R. Travis - "Socio-demogrpahic Trends: Land Use Trends - Climate Change"
Wharton - "Native American Rights Fund"
Conference Papers
Russell W. Busch - "Justice Delayed: A Tribal Attorney’s Perspective On Elwha
River Dan Removal and Ecosystem Restoration"
Sally K. Fairfax - "Historical Evolution and Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy: The Beginning of An Argument And Some Modest Predictions"
Robert L. Fischman - "Federalism and Natural Resources Policy"
Eric T. Freyfogle - "Private Rights and Collective Governance: A Functional Approach to Natural Resources Law"
J. Gregg Hobbs - "A Decade of Colorado Supreme Court Water Decisions: 1996-2006"
Robert B. Keiter - "Saving Special Places: Trends and Challenges with Protecting Public Lands"
Alexandra B. Klass - "The Growing Influence of Tort and Property Law On Natural Resources Law: Case Studies of Coal Bed Methane Development and Geologic Carbon Sequestration"
Leshy - "The Future of Mineral Development on Federal Lands in the United States"
Jim May - "Constitutional Environmental and Natural Resources Law"
John Copeland Nagle - "The Role of Case Studies in Natural Resources Law"
James R. Rasband - "What's In a Name? The Story of the Utah Wilderness Reinventory"
J. B. Ruhl - "The Future Public Law of Private Ecosystems: Merging a Mantra, a Metric, and a Method"
Karin P. Sheldon - "Some Preliminary Thoughts On Contrasts and
Convergence in Environmental and Natural Resoures Law"
A. Dan Tarlock - "Currents in Water Resources Law and Policy: How is “Prior” Coping with New Stresses?"
Dr. William R. Travis - "Sources of Stress and the Changing Context of Natural Resources Law and Policy in the New West"
October 29, 2007
Split Estates: A New Equalibrium Between Surface and Mineral Owners
June 7-9, 2006
27th Annual Summer Conference -
Climate Change and the Future of the American West
Conference Details
Conference Presentations
October 9, 2006
Celebration of the Centennial of the Antiquities Act
Featuring keynote speaker Bruce Babbitt;Wolf Law Building
