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The last two decades marked the longest period of drought in the Colorado River鈥檚 recorded history, and water demands in the last decade exceeded available supply. With thirty-five to forty million people in the U.S. currently relying on water from the Colorado River Basin, its waters are over allocated at...

Low-income individuals can benefit the most from the bill savings from solar energy, yet have the least direct access to distributed solar energy, often at their own economic expense. Distributed solar energy rebates are funded by customers from every income bracket, but are distributed in a regressive manner. In Colorado...

Two University of Colorado Law School professors submitted amicus briefs in litigations challenging the Trump administration鈥檚 recent actions shrinking Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. President Clinton, pursuant to his authority under the Antiquities Act, established the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument on September 18, 1996. Under...

Butterflies and bees pollinate over 85 percent of flowering plants and contribute to 35 percent of global food production. Bumble bees play a special role in pollination: they work longer days and in worse weather than other bees because of their unique abilities to fly in cooler temperatures and lower...

The Grand Canyon Trust (鈥淕CT鈥�) modernizes public land management by grazing livestock and conducting scientific research. Public lands are rarely managed to account for their exhaustible and diverse resources. To protect these resources, the GCT conducts research as a federal lands grazing permittee and integrates science into federally mandated land-use...

In Colorado, approximately two billion single use plastic bags are used annually 鈥� less than 5% are recycled. Of those recycled, most are turned into low-value products that are not recycled again. To combat the proliferation of plastic bags, ten cities in the state have passed plastic bag ordinances (see...

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The Getches-Wilkinson Center is proud to announce the launch of a student-produced podcast. The first series, Food for His Children , will tell the story of how a salmon fishing rights case reflects Pacific Northwest Tribes鈥� struggle鈥攐ver the course nearly forty years鈥攖o reassert their tribal sovereignty by insisting the states...

Oil and gas (O&G) production in Colorado is growing largely through development of wells using hydraulic fracturing (pumping millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under high pressure) coupled with horizontal drilling at distances extending one to three miles from the wells. (The entire process in now commonly referred...

Immensity is the abiding feature of the Colorado Plateau. During this year鈥檚 Advanced Natural Resources Seminar, our group was struck again and again by the sheer magnitude of the region鈥檚 features. Sleeping Ute Mountain, Shiprock, and Bears Ears greeted us outside Durango. These figures remained our companions on the horizon...