Dividing the Waters Conference – The Colorado River: Is the Law of the River Relevant to the Emerging Crisis?

Panelists, Moderators, and Guest Speakers Include:

• Hon. Kate Appleby, Senior Judge, Utah Court of Appeals
• Reed Benson, Don and Mabel Dickason Endowed Chair in Law and Professor of Law, School of Law, University of New Mexico
• Anne Castle, Senior Fellow, Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment, University of Colorado Law School, former Assistant Secretary of Water and Science, U.S. Department of Interior
• John Fleck, Writer in Residence, Utton Center, University of New Mexico Law School, former Director of the Water Resource Program at UNM, author of Water is for Fighting and Other Myths About Water and the West; Co-author Science be Dammed: How Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River
• Esteban Lopez, Commissioner of the Upper Colorado River Commission and former Commissioner Bureau of Reclamation
• Larry MacDonnell, Senior Fellow, Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment
• Rebecca Mitchell, Director, Colorado Water Conservation Board and Commissioner, Upper Colorado River Basin Commission
• Karla Nemeth, Director of California Department of Water Resources
• Jennifer Pit, Colorado River Program Director, the Audubon Society
• Jim Prairie, Chief Upper Colorado Basin Research and Modeling Group, Bureau of Reclamation
• Jason Robison, Professor of Law at the University of Wyoming, lead editor, Vision and Place: John Wesley Powell and Reimaging the Colorado River  
• Jack Schmidt: Professor of Watershed Science, Director Colorado River Studies, Utah State University
• Hon. John Thorson, retired Assistant Chief Administrative Law Judge, California Public Utility Commission; former Special Master of Arizona General Stream Adjudication
• Tanya Trujillo, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, Department of Interior
• Gregory Walch: General Counsel, Southern Nevada Water Authority
• Hon. Eric J. Wildman, 5^th Judicial District Judge, State of Idaho