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Leadville CampusThe 18th Annual Forum will be held at Colorado Mountain College - Timberline Campus in Leadville, CO at the new Climax-Molybdenum Leadership Center.

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The 2012 Forum is hosted by Colorado Mountain College (support from Lake County Board of Commissioners).

Colorado Water 2012


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2012 Speakers

  • Keynote Speaker:
  • Dick Bratton, Hoskin, Farina & Kampf on “The Politics of Water
  • Invited Presentations:
  • Gillian Klucas, Author of Leadville: The Struggle to Revive an American Town
  • Nolan Doesken, Colorado State Climatologist
  • Jean Townsend, Northwest Colorado Council of Governments
  • Invited Panelists:
  • James Eklund, Deputy Legal Counsel to the Governor
  • Jim Broderick, Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District
  • John McClow, Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District
  • Kato Dee, Colorado Mountain College
  • Katie Walton-Day, US Geological Survey
  • Steve Swanson, Blue River Watershed Group
  • Ray Lazuk, Climax Molybdenum Company
  • Dr. Mike Bartolo, CSU Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Mark Sponsler, Colorado Corn Growers Association