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Keynote Address JILL C. HARRIS Associate Counsel, Colorado River Water Conservation District (Glenwood Springs, Colorado) At her present post, Jill practices primarily environmental law and water law. She is a 1992 grad- uate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and holds a B.A. with honors in Sociology. She received her law degree and a certificate in environmental law from the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley in 1995. During law school, Jill worked at the EPA, Region 9 in San Francisco and the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund in Honolulu. She was also an editor and Programs Director of the Ecology Law Quarterly. Aftcr graduation, Jill moved to Colorado and practiced litigation at a smal11aw firm in Denver until joining the Colorado River Water Conservation District in 1998. Jill lives in Glcnwood Springs with her husband and two dogs, and enjoys tclcmark skiing, mountain biking and hiking whenever she has time. KATHLEEN KLEIN (also Moderator on Thursday) Manager, Upper Gunnison River Water Conservaney District (Gunnison, Colorado) Kathleen started as Manager of the UGRWCD in February of 1998, prudently choosing to love her family from the Front Range to Gunnison in the dead of winter. She worked previously in the private sector as a engineering consultant, and in the public sector for the Colorado Water Conservation Board. Kathleen holds a master's degree in Water Resources Planning and Management from Colorado State University, and a bachelor's from the University of Massachusetts in Agricultural and Resource Economics. Her career reflects a strong desire to foster compromise and cooperation in the water management arena in order to reduce conflict and legal expenditures. A native of Colorado, Kathleen is the mother of two young sons (and, periodically, 11 conservancy district board members.) L. RICHARD BRATTON Attorney at Law, Bratton & McClow, LLC and Water Workshop Co-Founder Dick Bratton has practiced law in Gunnison since 1958. He is experienced in water law, litiga- tion, real estate, agricultural law, and with the federal and state agencies. Since 1961, Dick has been counsel to the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District, rep- resenting the district in all legal matters. These have included all types of water matters in the water court, matters involving the state engineer and the Bureau of Reclamation, and - most recently - the successful opposition to the claims of Arapahoe County in the Gunnison River and its tributaries. Dick has a wide range of experience in water law and policy issues, and is well versed in both legal and practical problems. He played a major role, first as an attorney, and later as a witness, in representing a Conservancy District in securing a case of first impression rights to maintain stream flows for fish and recreation by creative and inventive use of traditional principles of Colorado Water law. He's also been active in legal and political activities involving the claimed right to float vs. private property rights, and in state and federal legislative and political processes, mostly related to water and agricultural matters. Current Chairman of the Water Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association, Dick is former chairman of the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority, the Colorado Water Congress, and the Agricultural Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association. He is a co-founder of the Agricultural and Rural Law Roundup of the Agricultural Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association. Dick has a B.A. from Western State College (1954), and received his L.L.B. from the University of Colorado School of Law (1957). In 1961, he received the Award of Merit from the Young Lawyers Section of the Colorado Bar Association. Dick received an Honorary Doctorate from Western State College in 1975, and was named Outstanding Alumnus in 1989. In 1991, he was named Outstanding Alumnus of the C.U. School of Law in the field of small firm practice. Dick is an avid outdoorsman. He was raised in Salida approximately 100 yards from the Arkansas River, where he spent many enjoyable hours.