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Agenda: Challenging Federal Ownership And Management: Public Lands And Public Benefits, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

Conference organizers, speakers and/or moderators included University of Colorado School of Law professors David H. Getches, Michael A. Gheleta, Teresa Rice, Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Rieke and Charles F. Wilkinson.

In the face of numerous proposals for privatizing, marketing, and changing the management of public lands, the Natural Resources Law Center will hold its third annual fall public lands conference October 11-13, at the CU School of Law in Boulder.

A panel of public land users and neighbors, including timber, grazing, mining, recreation, and environmental interests, will address current discontent with public land policy and management. There will also be discussion …

A History Of The Public Lands Debate, Patricia Nelson Limerick

Challenging Federal Ownership and Management: Public Lands and Public Benefits (October 11-13)

22 pages.

Water Conservation Through Integrated Basinwide Implementation, Steven J. Shupe

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

12 pages.

After The Concrete Sets: The Future Role Of The Bureau Of Reclamation In Western Water Management, John D. Leshy

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

23 pages.

Contains references.

Keep The Farmer Farming—How To Eat Your Water Cake And Have It Too, Raphael J. Moses

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

14 pages.

Contains references.

Policies To Enhance Western Water Use Efficiency: Best Of The West, Bruce C. Driver

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

18 pages.

Water Transfers And Exchanges: Using The Market To Improve Water Use—A Legal/Institutional View, Gary D. Weatherford

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

18 pages.

Opportunities For Improving The Ways We Use Water, Thomas M. Stetson

Western Water: Expanding Uses/Finite Supplies (Summer Conference, June 2-4)

40 pages.

Contains references.

Administering Colorado’S Water: A Critique Of The Present Approach, Clyde O. Martz, Bennett W. Raley

Colorado Water Issues and Options: The 90's and Beyond: Toward Maximum Beneficial Use of Colorado's Water Resources (October 8)

41 pages.

Contains footnotes.

Legal Implications Of Instream Flows And Other Nonconsumptive Uses, Steven J. Shupe

Western Water Law in Transition (Summer Conference, June 3-5)

14 pages.

Administering Water Rights: The Permit System, Lawrence J. Wolfe

Western Water Law in Transition (Summer Conference, June 3-5)

69 pages.

Contains references.

Agenda: Western Water Law In Transition, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Western Water Law in Transition (Summer Conference, June 3-5)

Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors James N. Corbridge, Jr., Lawrence J. MacDonnell, Richard B. Collins, David H. Getches and Charles F. Wilkinson.

The prior appropriation doctrine has governed the allocation and use of water in the western United States since the 1850s. The shifting nature of water demand is bringing about changes in the traditional legal system. This conference will consider the fundamental principles of the prior appropriation doctrine together with the important new developments in the law now underway throughout the West.