Former Colorado Supreme Justice Gregory Hobbs Jr., recognized a river’s collective influence and its powerful stream for connecting current generations of people with a historic and indigenous lesson: to safeguard one of Mother Nature’s most precious resources, water.
Part 2: Charles Wilkinson, a University of Colorado Law School faculty member since 1987, celebrates 50 years as a leading practitioner, scholar and teacher of federal Indian law, natural resources law, and water law in 2021.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling from last month may boost Native American negotiating clout as the Colorado River's bordering states ponder how to address impacts of drought in the region.
“In the West, when you touch water, you touch everything.” Legend has it that Wayne Aspinall, the congressman who represented Colorado’s Western Slope during...