GWC Team

Join Our Team! Now Hiring Student Research Assistant Positions for Fall 2024

Aug. 12, 2024

The Getches-Wilkinson Center (GWC) is seeking a Colorado Law student interested in natural resources, energy, and environmental law to serve as the GWC Research Assistant. The Research Assistant will work closely with GWC staff, including the Executive Director, the GWC Senior Water Fellow, and the Water Law Fellows, who will...

Legal Team and ASA ED

Getches-Green Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law Clinic Advocates to Protect Old-Growth Forests and Promote Public Transparency

July 30, 2024

In a victory for old-growth forests and public transparency, on May 24, 2024, a federal district court found that BLM violated the law when it approved its 鈥淚ntegrated Vegetation Management for Resilient Lands鈥 program in southwest Oregon. Colorado Law鈥檚 Getches-Green Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law Clinic represents Applegate Siskiyou...

Riley Varner

2024 Gary C. Bryner Award Receipient Riley Varner

July 30, 2024

The GWC is delighted to announce that Riley Varner has received the 2024 Gary C. Bryner Award. Gary Bryner served as Director of what was then called the Natural Resources Law Center. He came to Colorado after a successful career as a Professor of Political Science at BYU, and while...

Sierra Meggitt

2024 Natural Resources Law Outstanding Student Awarded to Sierra Meggitt

July 30, 2024

The Getches-Wilkinson Center is thrilled to announce that Sierra Meggitt received the 2024 Natural Resources Law Outstanding Student Award. Sierra is a rising 3L who has demonstrated a commitment to environmental and natural resources law and made significant contributions to the work of GWC, and she has a particular interest...

Doug Kenney and Chris Winter

GWC鈥檚 Colorado River Conference Takes the Spotlight in June

July 29, 2024

On June 6-7, a record crowd of 365 in-person and 100 online registrants assembled for the 44th Annual Colorado Law Conference on Natural Resources. 鈥 Next Chapters on the Colorado River: Short-Term Coping, Post-2026 Operations, and Beyond 鈥 was co-convened this year with the Water & Tribes Initiative (WTI), marking...

House Bill 1379 Signing

GWC Helps to fill the 鈥淕ap鈥 Left by Sackett

July 24, 2024

This May, Governor Polis signed into law bipartisan legislation protecting Colorado鈥檚 wetlands and streams in the wake of the Supreme Court鈥檚 Sackett decision. Handed down in 2023, Sackett redefined 鈥渨aters of the United States鈥 and rolled back federal protections for isolated wetlands and ephemeral and intermittent streams, which are especially...

Bob Anderson

2024 Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture in Natural Resources

July 17, 2024

Bob Anderson Solicitor of the Department of the Interior Bob Anderson is a law professor with extensive experience in American Indian law, public land, and water law. He is an enrolled member of the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. He taught at the University of Washington School...

CRRG

CRRG (Colorado River Research Group) Resumes Activity

July 15, 2024

The Colorado River Research Group (CRRG), founded and again chaired by the GWC鈥檚 Doug Kenney, resumed activities this Spring, headlined by the publication in May of its latest policy brief entitled: Imagining the River We Deserve: How the Post-2026 Rulemaking is Only One Step Towards Sustainability . In a nutshell,...

Public Lands by Len Necefer

2024 Martz Symposium on Public Lands

July 9, 2024

The Future of Public Lands 鈥 People, Place, and Power Public lands across the United States provide us with clean water, energy and food production, world-class recreational opportunities, wildlife habitat, and many other important values. Indigenous peoples have deep ties to the land informed by their traditional ecological knowledge. And...

LightHawk Full Group

Flying with LightHawk: A Welcome New Perspective on the Colorado River

June 28, 2024

Water, it is safe to say, is of the moment. Safer yet, the drought-stricken Colorado River is center stage. Seemingly overnight, the water beat has transcended from dusty backroads and Southwestern capitols to the front page of mainstream media outlets. Giving rise to that newfound coverage are the conferences and...

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