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  • Martz Symposium on Public Lands
    The Getches-Wilkinson Center and Water & Tribes Initiative will convening the 2025 Martz Symposium on Public Lands Thurs, Oct 23rd and Fri, Oct 24th at the Wolf Law Building in Boulder, CO.More information and registration information will be
  • Photo by Len Necefer
    A look inside the editorial process that transformed two days of dialogue into Volume 36, Issue 2 of the Colorado Environmental Law JournalAfter a five-year pandemic-induced hiatus, the Martz Symposium on Public Lands returned to the University of
  • Colorado Law students at Corona Arch in Southeast Utah, which could be sold off to a private developer under the current proposal
    The Getches-Wilkinson Center has published a white paper that provides a rapid assessment of a proposal from the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee to mandate the sale of federal public lands.A Rapid Assessment of the Senate鈥檚
  • Colorado River Conference
    On Thursday, June 5th and Friday, June 6th, the Getches-Wilkson Center and the Water & Tribes Initiative hosted the 45th Annual Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources. As efforts to finalize the post-2026 Interim Guidelines ramp up, the
  • ABA Publication Photo
    The Getches-Wilkinson Center is pleased to announce the publication of a thought-provoking article,听鈥淔acilitating a Green Future? Permitting Reforms and Renewables on Public Lands,鈥澨齝o-authored by Chris Winter, Executive Director of the
  • Colorado River by Chris Winter
    The Getches-Wilkinson Center and Water & Tribes Initiative will be co-convening the 2025 Conference on the Colorado River on Thurs, June 5th and Fri, June 6th at the Wolf Law Building in Boulder, CO.Turning Hindsight into Foresight: The Colorado
  • Razorback sucker by Sam Stukel
    The Getches-Wilkinson Center recently partnered with almost 40 law professors from around the country to defend the Endangered Species Act from a regulatory rollback proposed by the Trump Administration. For more than 40 years, the U.S. Fish and
  • Colorado River by Chris Winter
    The process for determining the operating rules for the Colorado River system that will take effect in 2027 is in full swing. While various alternative operating regimes have been proposed, no preferred or consensus alternative has yet emerged. As a
  • Colorado Plateau
    The Colorado Plateau had thirteen additional spring visitors this year. More conspicuous in our convoy of rental cars than the migratory geese that loudly pronounce spring鈥檚 arrival, at times more inebriated than the craftiest fermenters of the
  • Andrea Shipton
    In March, I had the pleasure of spending a week on the Colorado Plateau with fellow students and professors from the Advanced Natural Resources Law Seminar. The Colorado Plateau 鈥 a heart-shaped desert region encompassing portions of Utah, Arizona,
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