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  • Julia Olson and Mariah Bowman
    Hi, my name is Mariah Bowman and I am Colorado Law鈥檚 Wyss Scholar for the Class of 2025! Through The Wyss Foundation, I had the opportunity to host one of my heroes on campus to speak with students about her hard-won wisdom and career in
  • Julia Nania, Doug Kenney and Becky Mitchell
    On the evening of June 24, the GWC鈥檚 Doug Kenney joined Becky Mitchell, Colorado鈥檚 lead negotiator on Colorado River matters, at the Crested Butte Public Policy Forum for a conversation about current and future Colorado River issues.  Well over
  • 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. This proposal was being considered as a
  • Colorado River Conference
    On Thursday, June 5th and Friday, June 6th, the Getches-Wilkinson 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, 鈥淔acilitating a Green Future? Permitting Reforms and Renewables on Public Lands,鈥 co-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
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