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2009

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Student Schedule

Speaker Biographies

Agenda
· Day1
· Day2
· Day3
Student Schedule
Speaker Biographies
2009 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"

2008

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Conference

Accommodations

2008 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."

2008 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"

2007

Agenda and Overview

2007 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"
James 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"

2007 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"