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  • Kayaking Grand River
    Recently, River Network hosted River Rally 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The multi-day event featured attendees and presenters from around the country on topics surrounding water and rivers. Held right on the Grand River, I had the wonderful
  • river and rafters
    The GWC in 2024 is working to revitalize the Colorado River Research Group (CRRG), a group of prominent academics and close colleagues offering an 鈥渋ndependent, scientific voice鈥 on key Colorado River issues.  The CRRG was formed in 2014, and
  • Egypt Delegation Group Photo
    On May 15, 2024, GWC鈥檚 Director of the Western Water Policy Program, Doug Kenney, and Professor and GWC Board Chair, Mark Squillace, met with a delegation from Egypt to discuss Egypt鈥檚 ongoing struggle to reach an agreement with Ethiopia and Sudan
  • Andrew Teegarden
    On May 6th, 2024 the Colorado Legislature passed HB24-1379 鈥 a bill designed to protect the wetlands and streams at risk after the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling in Sackett v. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). The passage of the house bill saw
  • Andrew Teegarden
    Currently, there are two conflicting bills in the Colorado Legislature that would create a new state program regulating the dredge and fill of wetlands and streams across the State 鈥 HB 24-1379 and SB 24-127. A key question facing lawmakers is the
  • Sidney Williams
    The Colorado River is undergoing a big change in management that has the potential to affect nearly forty million people who live in the Colorado River Basin and rely on Colorado River water. Flowing through more than 246,000 square miles in
  • Bears Ears
    On April 18, 2024, the Bureau of Land Management issued a final rule that will guide future management of 245 million acres of public land, nearly 1/0th of the country鈥檚 land base. In the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Congress
  • Colorado River
    Colorado River Research Group (CRRG) members Jack Schmidt, Eric Kuhn and John Fleck submitted an 鈥渁lternative鈥 to the post-2026 EIS process entitled: 鈥淢anaging the Powell/Grand Canyon/Mead ecosystem after 2026.鈥  In a nutshell, the alternative
  • Panelists
    Aspen Journalism held an exciting panel in Basalt the evening of Tuesday April 9th. The event, 鈥淗anging in the Balance: Competing Needs for Water in the West鈥 hosted Kate Ryan, Executive Director of the Colorado Water Trust, Hattie Johnson,
  • CBA Env Law Section
    Co-hosted by the Colorado Bar Association, Getches-Wilkinson Center and Colorado Law Environmental Law Society.Thursday, April 18CLE Panel: 5 鈥 6:30 PM Social Hour: 6:30 - 7:30 PMIn-Person Only: University of Colorado, Wolf Law Building (2450
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