for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment at Colorado Law

Seventh Annual Clyde O. Martz Winter Symposium

A Green New Deal for Public Lands? Friday, February 28th, 2020 Wolf Law Building, Wittemyer Courtroom University of Colorado School of Law

Seventh Annual Martz Winter Symposium Clyde O. Martz was a father of natural resource law in the United States. He was an exemplary teacher, mentor, counselor, advocate, and a professor of natural resources law for 15 years at Colorado Law. Professor Martz was one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and of the Law School’s Natural Resources Law Center, which later became the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment. In 1951, he assembled and published the first natural resources law casebook, combining the previously discrete subjects of water law, mining law, and oil and gas law.

In 1962, Professor Martz joined the law firm of Davis Graham & Stubbs. During his tenure at Davis, Graham & Stubbs, he took periodic leaves of absence to serve as the Assistant Attorney General of the Lands and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1967-69), a Colorado Special Assistant Attorney General (1971-75), and as the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior (1980-81). He retired from the firm in the late 1990s and passed away in 2010 at the age of 89.

The Martz Natural Resources Management Fund was established in memory of natural resources law pioneer Clyde Martz and supports innovative programming at Colorado Law on best practices in natural resources management.

Symposium Introduction The Seventh Annual Clyde O. Martz Winter Symposium will probe a provocative set of questions about the past and future of one third of our nation’s lands. Challenges to be addressed include: Are current public land laws and management regimes sufficient to tackle the overwhelming problem of climate change? Do the public lands serve all of the public, including historically marginalized groups? Should public lands management be integrated into the broader ecological, economic, and social fabric? How should public land managers address changing visitation and access patterns in the age of the internet and social media? Our panelists come from diverse backgrounds, professions, and points of view, and they will address these questions in visionary and practical ways. The conference is for all who enjoy our public lands as well as those who want to learn more about them.

Friday, February 28th

Seventh Annual Martz Winter Symposium 8:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 Welcome by GWC Executive Director Alice Madden

9:00-10:15 New Concepts for Public Lands: Climate, Equity, and Diversity The nation’s public lands, which comprise roughly one third of the United States, are sites of intense controversy as well as occasional consensus. Some debates recur with different accents, such as arguments for and against privatization and/or for and against greatly enhanced environmental protection. Consensus seems to adhere around iconic landscapes, such as National Parks. Yet even there, previous frameworks may be missing the mark in terms of some of the most pressing issues facing public lands today. Our panelists will address challenges to the future of public lands that require fresh approaches, even if the problems themselves are not new. Questions will include: How should we manage public lands in light of climate change? How can public lands be managed to include a more diverse population? Can public lands be sites of equity and inclusion?

Moderator Michael Connor Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Former Deputy Secretary of the US Department of the Interior Confirmed Speakers Steve Feldgus Deputy Staff Director & Senior Energy and Minerals Policy Advisor House Natural Resources Committee

Robert Keiter Wallace Stegner Professor of Law Director, Wallace Stegner Center of Land, Resources, and the Environment University of Utah

Oriana Sandoval CEO Center for Civic Policy

Alan Spears Senior Director for Cultural Resources National Parks Conservation Association

10:15-10:45 Morning Networking Break (Refreshments provided in Boettcher Hall)

12:00-12:45 Lunch (Lunch provided in Schaden Commons, 2nd floor - West side)

10:45-12:00 Public Lands and Livelihood: Beyond the Jobs v. Environment Debate Whether to protect public lands from resource extraction often hinges on views about economic benefits to surrounding communities. Can economic wellbeing and livelihood be seen as harmonious with protective public lands management rather than in tension with it? This panel will explore versions of this question from the perspective of Native nations, rural communities, and other constituencies.

Moderator Scott Hardt Partner, Davis Graham and Stubbs LLP Confirmed Speakers Ann Eisenberg Assistant Professor of Law University of South Carolina

Jessica Shoemaker Associate Professor of Law University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Rebecca Tsosie Regents Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program Special Advisor to the Provost for Diversity and Inclusion University of Arizona

12:45-2:00 Symposium Armchair Discussion This moderator led discussion will incorporate different viewpoints regarding the legal issues facing the future of public lands management, drawing on the experience of experts from previous administrations.

Moderator Robert Anderson Charles I. Stone Professor of Law and Director, Native American Law Center University of Washington

Confirmed Speakers John Leshy Harry D. Sunderland and Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus University of California Hastings, College of Law Solicitor, Department of the Interior, 1993-2001

Rebecca Watson Wellborn, Sullivan, Meck, and Tooley P.C. Former Assistant Secretary for Lands and Minerals Management US Department of the Interior

2:00-3:15 Recreation and Public Lands: Beyond the Hiker v. Off Road Vehicle Debate Recreation disputes on public lands often involve motorized versus non-motorized uses. These conflicts are not going away, but they hardly capture the full scope of concerns about who accesses the public lands for recreation and how. This panel will address how different demographic groups (based on race, ethnicity, age, and generation,) raise new and interesting questions about who the public lands are for and how to manage them.

Moderator Mark Squillace Raphael J. Moses Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research University of Colorado

Confirmed Speakers José González Founder and Director Emeritus, Latino Outdoors Partner, Avarna

Sarah Krakoff Moses Lasky Professor of Law University of Colorado

Teresa Martinez Executive Director Continental Divide Trail Coalition

3:15-3:45 Afternoon Networking Break (Refreshments provided in Boettcher Hall)

3:45-5:00 New and Old Tools for the Future of Public Lands The concluding panel will consider how new and existing laws and policies can address the full scope of public lands issues raised throughout the day. To what extent can litigation under existing laws still serve the public, and the public lands? Does the National Environmental Policy Act need revision, or just revival? Are public trust concepts viable? If so, in their current form or do we need an expanded understanding of public trust? Panelists will address these and related questions.

Moderator Phil Hanceford Conservation Director, Agency Policy and Planning The Wilderness Society Confirmed Speakers David Adelman Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law University of Texas at Austin

Sharon Buccino Senior Director, Land Division, Nature Program Natural Resources Defense Council

Alexandra B. Klass Distinguished McKnight University Professor University of Minnesota

Heidi McIntosh Managing Attorney Earthjustice

Speaker Biographies (Alphabetical by last name)

David Adelman David E. Adelman teaches and writes in the areas of environmental law, intellectual property law, and climate change policy. Professor Adelman’s research focuses on the many interfaces between law and science. His articles have addressed such topics as the regulatory implications of emerging genomic technologies, the tensions between legal and scientific evidentiary standards, and development of effective policies for promoting innovation relevant to addressing climate change. Professor Adelman clerked for the Honorable Samuel Conti of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before entering academia,

he was an attorney with the firm Covington & Burling and a Senior Attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Prior to joining UT Law, he taught at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law.

Robert Anderson Robert Anderson is a Professor and Director of the Native American Law Center at the University of Washington School of Law, and is the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where he teaches annually. He teaches primarily in the areas of American Indian law, water law, natural resources law, and property law. He is a co-author and member of the Board of Editors of Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (2005) and (2012). He is a co-author of Anderson, Berger, Frickey and Krakoff, American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary (3rd ED. 2015). He spent twelve years as a Staff Attorney for the Boulder-based Native

American Rights Fund where he litigated major cases involving Native American sovereignty and natural resources. He was one of the two attorneys who opened NARF's Alaska office in 1984. From 1995-2001, he served as a political appointee in the Clinton Administration under Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, providing legal and policy advice on a wide variety of Indian law and natural resource issues. Bob was the co-chair of the Obama transition team for the Department of the Interior in 2008, and one of five members of the National Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform. He is a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.

Sharon Buccino Sharon Buccino is a Senior Attorney and Director of the Land program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Originally, from central Florida, Ms. Buccino has spent over 25 years in NRDC’s Washington DC office. Her current work focuses on energy policy and transparent government.

Ms. Buccino actively litigates in federal court and advocates before federal agencies and Congress. Working with 16 Indian Nations, she secured a recent court victory against the Federal

Communications Commission. The action preserved environmental and historic review for the siting of cell towers and other wireless infrastructure. Ms. Buccino also led NRDC’s successful litigation under the Freedom of Information Act to force disclosure of the Cheney Energy Task Force papers. These documents exposed industry influence in shaping the fossil fuel agenda of the Bush-Cheney Administration. Ms. Buccino has expertise in numerous federal laws including the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.

Prior to joining NRDC, Ms. Buccino practiced environmental and administrative law with a private firm in Washington, DC. She also served as a law clerk for the Alaska Supreme Court. Ms. Buccino earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her B.A. from Yale University. She lives with her husband, a human rights advocate, in Arlington, VA. Together, they have raised two daughters beginning to make their own marks in shaping a compassionate and just world.

Michael Connor Mike Connor is a partner in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP. His practice focuses on strategic advice and legal services to clients in matters involving water resources, public lands, energy development, environmental compliance, and Native American law.

The majority of Mr. Connor’s career has been in the public sector, holding several leadership positions at the federal level. The most recent was Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2014 until 2017, where he was its second highest-ranking official. Connor was a key leader in implementing the Administration’s priorities at Interior, including initiatives related

to water resources and drought resiliency, science-based strategies for landscape-level management of public lands, expanding renewable energy development, and improving the federal government’s fulfillment of its trust responsibility to Native Americans.

Connor served as the Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation from 2009 to 2014, where he led efforts to address challenges associated with water supply and hydropower generation in the West. As Commissioner, he forged major Indian water rights settlements, two major binational agreements with Mexico on the Colorado River, and worked to resolve major water resource conflicts in California and other states.

From 2001 until 2009, Connor served as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and prior to that time worked at Interior in the Solicitor’s Office and as Director of the Secretary’s Indian Water Rights Office.

Connor received his J.D. from the University of Colorado and a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from New Mexico State University. Prior to law school, he worked for GE in its Power Generation business. A native of New Mexico, he is an enrolled member of the Taos Pueblo.

Ann M. Eisenberg Professor Eisenberg's scholarship focuses on land use, local government, rural livelihoods, and law and the "urban/rural divide." Her work on law and rural communities has appeared or is forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review, the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the Southern California Law Review, and elsewhere. She teaches Property and the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Prior to joining South Carolina's faculty, she was the Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Fellow at West Virginia University College of Law. She received her B.A. and J.D. at Cornell

University. She has also worked as a Staff Attorney for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and is a member of the New York, D.C, and South Carolina Bars.

Steve Feldgus Steve Feldgus is the Deputy Staff Director and Senior Energy and Minerals Policy Advisor for the House Natural Resources Committee under Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ). Previously he managed the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee in the Minority, and before that worked for two years for the Directors of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement and the Bureau of Land Management as a political appointee in the Obama Administration. He also previously worked on the Natural Resources Committee

under Chairman Nick Rahall (D-WV) from 2007 through 2011, as well as on the personal office staff of Senator and then-Congressman Robert Menendez (D-NJ). Dr. Feldgus has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and got his start on Capitol Hill as an American Association for the Advancement of Science / American Chemical Society Congressional Fellow for Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ).

José González José González is an experienced educator in formal and informal education settings with an array of associated interests in the arts, education, conservation, and the environment. He has broad experience as a K-12 public education teacher, environmental education advisor, outdoor education instructor and coordinator, and university adjunct faculty. He received his B.A at the University of California, Davis, and his M.S at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment. His teaching credential coursework was at the Bilingual Multicultural Education

Department at California State University, Sacramento.

As a public school teacher, he taught courses in Spanish, Social Studies, Behavior Intervention for at-risk youth, and English Language Development in middle school and high school settings. As a Program Coordinator at San Jose State University with the California Mini-Corps Program, he trained and led groups of undergraduate students providing direct instructional services to migrant students in partner school districts and in outdoor education programs. At the University of Michigan, School of Education, he was an instructor for science education in their undergraduate program. Recently, at the National Hispanic University, he has taught course on Science Methods, Math Methods, Primary & Secondary Language Development, Latino Culture, and Technology Integration at the Teacher Education Department.

In his capacity developing LO, José looks forward to opportunities and collaborating with organizations seeking to diversify their outdoor and conservation programs. He is available for trainings, workshops, and speaking engagements around these topics.

Phil Hanceford Phil Hanceford is Conservation Director of The Wilderness Society’s Agency Policy and Planning team. Phil uses his knowledge of natural resource law and policy to protect desert wildlands in the West stewarded by the Bureau of Land Management. Phil appreciates the openness and remoteness of BLM-managed wildlands, exploring the majestic rivers and canyons of the West and discovering new places to roam freely, explore, and respect the lands and waters that are part our public land legacy. Through engagement in land use planning

and advocating for new policy, he works to change the agency culture of the BLM to fully embrace the conservation aspects of its mission and enhance and expand America’s newest network of protected public lands: the BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System.

Scott Hardt Scott Hardt is a partner at Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP, where his practice focuses on environmental and public lands issues arising in connection with natural resources and real estate development activities. He advises clients on permitting and regulatory compliance issues arising under a broad array of federal and state environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the Oil Pollution Act, CERCLA, and the National Historic Preservation Act. He also assists clients in obtaining and maintaining mineral rights and

other use and access rights on federal and state public lands. This work involves close coordination with federal land managers and other permitting agencies, including the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Environmental Protection Agency, and various state agencies. Mr. Hardt has successfully litigated several citizen suits and judicial appeals arising under federal environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act, CERCLA, and RCRA in courts across the Western U.S. He also regularly handles administrative appeals and hearings before the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, and various state commissions.

Mr. Hardt received his J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and an editor for the University of Colorado Law Review. Prior to joining DGS, he practiced at a boutique environmental firm in Denver, various national law firms, and the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. Mr. Hardt is admitted to practice in Colorado and before the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Hardt has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America since 2001.

Robert B. Keiter Professor Keiter holds a J.D. degree with honors from Northwestern University School of Law and a B.A. with honors from Washington University. He has taught at the University of Wyoming, Boston College, and Southwestern University, and served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Professor Keiter's most recent books are To Conserve Unimpaired: The Evolution of the National Park Idea, (Island Press, April 2013), and the Wyoming State Constitution (Oxford University Press,

2017). His other books include Keeping Faith With Nature: Ecosystems, Democracy, and America's Public Lands (Yale Univ. Press 2003); Reclaiming the Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology, and the West (Univ. of Utah Press 1998); Visions of the Grand Staircase-Escalante: Examining Utah's Newest National Monument (Utah Mus. of Nat. History & Wallace Stegner Center 1998); The Wyoming State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Greenwood Press 1993); and The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Redefining America's Wilderness Heritage (Yale Univ. Press 1991). He has also written numerous book chapters and journal articles on public lands and natural resource law, addressing such topics as national parks, ecosystem management, wildfire policy, and biodiversity conservation. He serves as a Trustee of the National Parks Conservation Association and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, for which he served as President from 2013-2014.

Professor Keiter teaches Natural Resources Law and Constitutional Law. He has received teaching awards from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, the University of Wyoming College of Law, and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. In 2008, he was named a University Distinguished Professor by the University of Utah. His current project is an update of his previous work on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

Alexandra B. Klass Professor Alexandra B. Klass teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, environmental law, natural resources law, tort law, and property law. Her recent scholarly work, published in many of the nation’s leading law journals, addresses regulatory challenges to integrating more renewable energy into the nation’s electric grid, transportation electrification, oil and gas transportation infrastructure, and the use of eminent domain for electric transmission lines and pipelines. She is a co-author of Energy Law: Concepts and Insights Series (Foundation Press 2017), Energy Law and Policy (West

Academic Publishing 2d ed. 2018), Natural Resources Law: A Place-Based Book of Problems and Cases (Wolters Kluwer, 4th ed., 2018), and The Practice and Policy of Environmental Law (Foundation Press, 4th ed. 2017). Professor Klass was named the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year for 2009-2010, and she served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2010-2012. She was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School in 2015 and at Uppsala University in Sweden in 2019. She is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and in prior years was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law and the Solly Robins Distinguished Research Fellow.

Prior to her teaching career, Professor Klass was a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP in Minneapolis, where she specialized in environmental law, natural resources, and land use matters. During her years in private practice from 1993-2004, she handled cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts involving contaminated property, wetlands, environmental review, mining, environmental rights, zoning, eminent domain, and environmental torts. She clerked for the Honorable Barbara B. Crabb, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin from 1992-1993.

Professor Klass has served in leadership positions in state and national bar organizations and nonprofits. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and chairs the group’s legal committee. She was a member of the Governing Council of the Environmental and Natural Resources Section of the Minnesota State Bar Association from 2005-2013, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association from 2001-2011, and served as co-chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Hennepin County Bar Association from 2000-2006. She is a Member Scholar at the Center for Progressive Reform, and a Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment. In 2017, she received the Eldon G. Kaul Distinguished Service Award, presented by the Minnesota State Bar Association Section on Environmental, Natural Resources, and Energy Law to “a member of the bench or bar who has demonstrated a significant commitment and made an outstanding contribution to environmental, natural resources or energy law in the state of Minnesota”.

Sarah Krakoff Sarah Krakoff is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law at the University of Colorado. Her areas of expertise include American Indian law, natural resources and public land law, and environmental justice. She is the co-author of American Indian Law: Cases and Commentary (with Bob Anderson and Bethany Berger), and co-editor of Tribes, Land, and Environment (with Ezra Rosser.) Professor Krakoff's articles appear in the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, and the Harvard Environmental Law Review, among other journals. She also runs the Law

School's Acequia Project, which provides free legal services to low-income farmers in the San Luis Valley of Colorado. Professor Krakoff has authored amicus briefs in the 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Circuits, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. Before joining the Colorado Law tenure-track faculty, Professor Krakoff directed CU's American Indian Law Clinic and secured permanent University funding to ensure the Clinic's future. Professor Krakoff started her legal career at DNA-Peoples Legal Services on the Navajo Nation, where she initiated DNA's Youth Law Project with an Equal Justice Works fellowship. She received her BA from Yale and her JD from U.C. Berkeley, and clerked for Judge Warren J. Ferguson on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

John Leshy Professor John Leshy joined the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in the fall of 2001, after serving as Solicitor (General Counsel) of the U.S. Department of the Interior throughout the Clinton Administration. Previously he taught at Arizona State University College of Law (1980-1992), and served in the Interior Department in the Carter Administration, as special counsel to the Chair of the Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, and with the Natural Resources Defense Council in California. He started his legal career as a litigator with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

In 2008-2009 Leshy co-chaired the Obama Administration transition team for the Interior Department, after heading the Interior transition team for Clinton-Gore in 1992-93. In 2013 he received the Defenders of Wildlife Legacy Award for lifetime contributions to wildlife conservation.

In 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2011 Leshy was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1969, after earning an A.B. at Harvard College. His publications include books on the Mining Law of 1872 (1987) and the Arizona Constitution (2nd edition published in 2013), and a co-author of textbooks on water law (6th edition published in 2018) and federal land and resources law (7th edition published in 2014).

Teresa Martinez For much of her 30-year professional career, Teresa Martinez has worked throughout our entire National Trails System. From 1987-2007 she worked for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, from 2007 to 2012 she worked for the Continental Divide Trail Alliance and since 2012 she has been the Executive Director (and co-founder) of the Continental Divide Trail Coalition. She serves on the board of the Partnership for the National Trails System and currently serves as the Chair of the Federal Advisory Committee to aide the USFS in the

development of the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail. When not working on behalf of one of our National Trails, Teresa may be found exploring trails with her dog by bike, horse, and foot.

Heidi McIntosh Heidi McIntosh is managing attorney of the Rocky Mountain regional office in Denver, Colorado, where she leads a team of ten attorneys handling public lands, energy and environmental justice cases. She came to Earthjustice in 2012 with more than two decades of environmental litigation experience as staff attorney, legal director, conservation director, and associate director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. She currently represents a coalition of conservation groups in a challenge to President Trump’s dismantling of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments.

Heidi received a BA in Political Science and German from the University of Arizona and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC. She received an LLM degree in environmental law from the University of Utah School of Law.

Oriana Sandoval Oriana Sandoval is the Chief Executive Officer at the Center for Civic Policy, a nonpartisan organization that strives to involve everyday New Mexicans in the public policy decisions that affect their lives with the goal of achieving positive and lasting change. A native of New Mexico, Oriana received her Bachelor of Arts in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College; a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of California -- Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy; and a Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley School of Law. She is currently a member of the New Mexico Bar Association.

Oriana has worked on economic development, environmental justice, conservation, and civil rights issues for more than a decade. Oriana worked with the UC Berkeley Labor Center to provide

leadership development trainings to Latino immigrant grassroots organizers in California’s Central Valley. She clerked at the Center on Race Poverty and the Environment where she conducted research for litigation on climate change issues and cases involving the violation of air quality standards in California’s Central Valley.

In 2011, Oriana served as the founding Executive Director of New Mexico Vote Matters (NMVM), a non-profit organization committed to the empowerment and participation of historically disenfranchised communities in New Mexico. At the Center for Civic Policy, Oriana leads the organization’s policy and civic engagement campaigns.

Jessica Shoemaker Jessica Shoemaker is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska College of Law. Her research focuses at the intersection of property, law, and community, with particular attention to modern land-use and property-system challenges across rural landscapes broadly and within American Indian reservations specifically. Her articles appear in the Michigan Law Review, the California Law Review, and the Journal of Law, Property, & Society, among other journals, and she has presented her work frequently internationally and at numerous universities. From 2018 to 2019, she was the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Legal and Resource Rights at the University of

Alberta Faculty of Law. She is a Founding Fellow of the Rural Futures Institute, a Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies, and Program Chair for the Association of Law, Property, and Society. She is also a current editor of Great Plains Research. Prior to joining the University of Nebraska, Professor Shoemaker clerked for the Honorable David M. Ebel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and worked as a Skadden Fellow at a national non-profit law firm devoted to advocacy around systemic legal issues affecting small family farmers and rural communities. While in private practice in Denver, she also worked in nearly every phase of litigation and dispute resolution, including several significant cases involving Indigenous land rights and religious practices.

Alan Spears Alan Spears joined the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) in May 1999 as an intern for the Enhancing Cultural Diversity program. In that capacity, he helped manage the National Parks Community Partners Program, a six-city effort to better connect racial and ethnically diverse groups and individuals to national parks. He currently serves as a lobbyist for the Government Affairs department, an expert on the intersectionality of race, equity and inclusion and national park advocacy, and as NPCA’s in-house historian.

He has served as the staff lead or co-lead on successful campaigns to establish the Fort Monroe National Monument (VA), the Harriet Tubman National Monument (MD), the Pullman National

Monument (IL), and the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument (AL). Alan previously helped win introduction and passage of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Funding Reauthorization Act of 2008, which helped raise the authorized funding limit for this program to $2.5 million per year. Alan’s current priorities managing a campaign to designate a new national park unit to businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and advocacy on behalf of the National Heritage Area program.

Alan remains the only NPCA staff person ever to be plucked from a tidal marsh by a U.S. Park Police helicopter.

Alan has a B.A. in American History with a concentration in Women’s Studies from Clark University (Worcester, MA) and an M.A. in American History from Howard University (Washington, DC) where he wrote a thesis on the “Washington, DC Race Riot of 1919.” Alan was born and raised in Washington, DC.

Mark Squillace Mark Squillace is the Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Professor Squillace currently serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research and previously served as the Director of Colorado Law’s Natural Resources Law Center from 2005-2013. Before joining the Colorado law faculty in 2005, Professor Squillace taught at the University of Toledo College of Law, where he was named the Charles Fornoff Professor of Law and Values, and at the University of Wyoming College of Law, where he served a three-year term as the Winston S. Howard Professor of Law. He is a former Fulbright scholar and the author

or co-author of numerous articles and books on water resources law, public lands, natural resources, and environmental law and policy.

Rebecca Tsosie Rebecca Tsosie is a Regents’ Professor at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona and also serves as Vice Provost for Inclusive Excellence. Professor Tsosie, who is of Yaqui descent, is a Faculty Co-Chair for the Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona, and she is widely known for her work in the fields of Federal Indian law and indigenous peoples’ human rights. Prior to joining the U of A faculty, Professor Tsosie was a Regent’s Professor and Vice Provost for Inclusion and Community Engagement at Arizona State University. Professor Tsosie was the first faculty Executive Director for ASU’s Indian Legal Program and served in that

position for 15 years. Professor Tsosie has published widely on sovereignty, self-determination, cultural pluralism, environmental policy and cultural rights. She teaches in the areas of Federal Indian Law, Property, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and Cultural Resources Law. Professor Tsosie is a member of the Arizona Bar Association and the California Bar Association. Professor Tsosie serves as a Supreme Court Justice for the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and as an Associate Judge on the San Carlos Tribal Court of Appeals. She received her B.A. and J.D. degrees f rom the University of California, Los Angeles.

Rebecca W. Watson Rebecca Watson is a shareholder in the law firm of Welborn, P.C. in Denver and serves as President of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. She is the 4th woman to serve as President and is leading the Foundation through its first strategic plan in its 66-year history. Rebecca has a distinguished 40-year career representing natural resource, oil and gas and renewable energy clients and in high-level public service in the federal government. As Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management in the U.S. Department of Interior in the George W. Bush administration, she had oversight over three bureaus including the Bureau of Land Management. Earlier, she served as Assistant General Counsel for Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy. Rebecca was named the 2011 Distinguished Natural Resources

Practitioner-in-Residence at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, her alma mater, and has been repeatedly, nationally recognized as a top energy and natural resources lawyer. She speaks and writes frequently on public land and energy topics. Rebecca is a Trustee on the Board of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West 5-museum complex in Cody, Wyoming where she recently moved.

Symposium Sponsors

Special Thanks to Our Supporters

This symposium is made possible through the generous support of donors who sponsored this year’s Martz Winter Symposium and those who have invested in our Clyde O. Martz Endowed Fund for Natural Resources Management (including Brian Dolan and Davis Graham and Stubbs LLP). The Martz Natural Resources Management Fund was established in the memory of natural resources law pioneer Clyde Martz and supports innovative programming at Colorado Law in best practices in natural resources management. We would also like to extend a special thank you to the students of the Colorado Law Review and the Colorado Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review for all their efforts and support in the development of the Seventh Annual Martz Winter Symposium.

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The Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment endeavors to serve the people of the American West, the nation, and the world through creative, interdisciplinary research, bold, inclusive teaching and innovative problem solving in order to further true sustainability for our use of the lands, waters, and environment. Major programs and initiatives focus on natural resources, water and

public lands issues in Colorado and the West; energy and environmental security in the developing world; electricity regulation and energy policy; climate change law and policy; and native communities and environmental justice. The name comes from the contributions of two iconic figures in the law school’s environmental law history, David Getches and Charles Wilkinson.

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