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Thursday, June 16 and Friday, June 17 2026 May Be Too Late: Hard Conversations Â鶹ӰԺ Really Complicated Issues There is no debate – demands for water across the Colorado River Basin exceed the shrinking supply. Chronic drought, record heat, increasing winds and aridity, as well as rampant wildfires are diminishing...

John Leshy, Author Distinguished Professor of Law University of California, Hastings College of Law The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land and manage it primarily for recreation, education and conservation. America’s public lands include more than 600 million acres of...

Tapestry, X’s Moonshot for the Electric Grid Audrey Zibelman Vice President, X’s Electric Grid Moonshot Nations are finally committing to greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that could limit global warming. However, technical obstacles to the decarbonization of electric power could yet prevent those commitments from being realized. The low carbon...

Equity in the Colorado River Basin: How to Sustainably Manage a Shrinking Resource Thursday, September 30 and Friday, October 1 Simply put – demands for water in the Colorado River Basin exceed supply. Chronic drought, record heat, and rampant wildfires are already affecting the Basin’s overall health and resilience, and...

Thursday, September 30 and Friday, October 1 Equity in the Colorado River Basin: How to Sustainably Manage a Shrinking Resource Simply put – demands for water in the Colorado River Basin exceed supply. Chronic drought, record heat, and rampant wildfires are already affecting the Basin’s overall health and resilience, and...

The Water & Tribes Initiative: Tribal Water Rights & a Sustainable Vision for the Colorado River Basin April 27, 2021 The 30 federally recognized tribes in the Colorado River Basin depend on the Colorado and its tributaries for a variety of purposes, including cultural and religious activities, domestic, irrigation, commercial,...

2021 Ruth Wright Distinguished Lecture in Natural Resources: Are We Saved? Tempering Our Expectations for Natural Resources Management Under the Biden Administration Marcilynn A. Burke Dean and Dave Frohnmayer Chair in Leadership and Law University of Oregon School of Law Wednesday, April 7, 2021 Almost forty years ago, Dean Derrick...

13th Annual Schultz Lecture in Energy: Climate Change and Innovative Paths to a Sustainable Future Dr. Steven Chu U.S. Secretary of Energy 2009-2013 William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology Stanford University Thursday, March 4, 2021 Multiple industrial and agricultural revolutions have profoundly...

Session One: Expanding the Toolbox of Water Financing Options Tuesday, September 15, 2020 Gone are the days when funding western water needs was merely a task of gaining Congressional authorization and appropriations for new dams and reservoirs. Today, federal funds are limited, and much of what needs to happen does...

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,...