Leshy

2020 Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture

June 23, 2020

Public Land Policy after the Trump Administration: Is This a Turning Point? Thursday, February 27, 2020 Professor John Leshy University of California-Hastings College of Law Since the Civil War, a strong, bipartisan consensus has developed in support of the national government’s owning large amounts of land. Over the last half-century,...

Seventh Annual Martz Winter Symposium: A Green New Deal for Public Lands?

June 23, 2020

Seventh Annual Martz Winter Symposium: A Green New Deal for Public Lands? Friday, February 28, 2020 The Seventh Annual Clyde O. Martz Winter Symposium will probe a provocative set of questions about the past and future of one third of our nation’s lands. Challenges to be addressed include: Are current...

We Could "Green" Our Economic Comeback, But Will We?

June 17, 2020

Air pollution first fell in China as the country locked down in response to the novel coronavirus, COVID-19. As the pandemic spread, shutdowns spread across the globe, and air quality improved dramatically. These improvements were largely attributable to reductions in passenger air travel, reductions in industry operations, and far fewer...

Anne Castle

Global Water Matters Podcast Episode 2: Insights from the Colorado River

May 31, 2020

The second episode of the GWI Global Water Matters podcast features Anne Castle ('81), member of the Water Policy Group and senior fellow at the GWC. In conversation with producer Gretchen Miller, Castle discusses the management and future of the over-allocated Colorado River Basin, its many competing interests, her personal...

A Green New Deal for Public Lands?

April 19, 2020

We are facing a national public health crisis that should be pulling the nation together. Yet the effects of and reactions to COVID-19 track the fault lines of class, race, region, and cultural affiliation that predate this crisis and will, absent concerted national and collective effort, be exacerbated by it...

Now Accepting Applications: Getches-Wilkinson Water Fellows

April 2, 2020

We are pleased to announce we have launched a national search for the inaugural pair of Getches-Wilkinson Water Fellows. The Getches-Wilkinson Fellows Program is a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to train the next generation of leaders in natural resources fields. The intensive two-year program will immerse the two Fellows in the...

The Climate and Diversity Crisis: Moving Toward a Global Awakening?

March 25, 2020

Please join us for the Boulder Faculty Climate Science and Education Committee, Spring 2020 Climate Lecture with Dr. Cassandra Brooks. Tuesday, April 21st 5:00-6:30 p.m. (Webinar) University of Colorado Boulder Boulder Faculty Climate Science and Education Committee Spring 2020 Climate Lecture The Climate and Biodiversity Crisis: Moving Toward a Global...

Calling all conservation innovators and risk-takers

March 3, 2020

On behalf of the Salazar Center for North American Conservation, CSU Author: Courtney Massey In 2020, the planet is facing existential threats from human-induced climate change, species extinction, and rapid population growth – all of which contribute to increasing pressure on and fragmentation of rural and urban landscapes. At the...

Getches-Wilkinson Center to Launch Fellows Program With Focus on Water in the West

Dec. 4, 2019

Anne Castle

The Risk of Curtailment Under the Colorado River Compact

Nov. 11, 2019

New Study of Colorado River Cutback Risks by GWC Senior Fellow Anne Castle and University of New Mexico Water Resources Program Director John Fleck. With a credible risk that declines in the Colorado River’s flow could force water curtailments in coming decades in Colorado and the rest of the Upper...

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