Add to ORKGLawsuits offer an arcane and fundamental way of making basic water law and policy. The tortured course of litigation set the course of natural resource policy for years to come. Mimbres Irrigation District v. Salopek et al., which reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978 under the more glamorous moniker of United States v. New Mexico, dealt for the first time with the important issue of U.S. Forest Service water rights on Forest Service lands. The decision both resolved the history of Forest Reservations with respect to water and narrowed and shaped Forest Service options with respect to future management. This article provides the intimate details of the Forest Service litigation. The portrait reveals how the case struggled to define the For...
As one who took an early interest in the water rights of American Indian tribes (American Indian Wat...
Document: 88th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Document No. 20, Determination of the Rights of the St...
Recently, resistance to the All-American Canal Lining Project came from both sides of the border as ...
This article explains the importance of water originating on national forests to Western states\u27 ...
This is a story of how two rivers in the remote reaches of Wyoming and Montana, and the underlying w...
The Reclamation Act of 1902 delegated to the states the power to control the use of water developed ...
Water is the lifeblood of human existence. New Mexico\u27s history provides a fascinating microcosm ...
The judicially created federal reserved rights doctrine provides that when the federal government wi...
The reserved water rights doctrine is — and always has been — a controversial doctrine in Western wa...
A single, century-old court decision affects the water rights of nearly everyone in the West. The Su...
In 1976, the United States Supreme Court decided Colorado River Water Conservation District v. Unite...
On January 6, 1908, the Supreme Court ruled that when land is set aside for the use of Indian tribes...
The story of water in the American West shows that political intervention is unnecessary. Local inst...
The story of Kleppe v. New Mexico dramatizes how assertion of federal power advancing national con...
Attempts to alter water use agreements, especially those spanning back decades or even centuries, el...
As one who took an early interest in the water rights of American Indian tribes (American Indian Wat...
Document: 88th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Document No. 20, Determination of the Rights of the St...
Recently, resistance to the All-American Canal Lining Project came from both sides of the border as ...
This article explains the importance of water originating on national forests to Western states\u27 ...
This is a story of how two rivers in the remote reaches of Wyoming and Montana, and the underlying w...
The Reclamation Act of 1902 delegated to the states the power to control the use of water developed ...
Water is the lifeblood of human existence. New Mexico\u27s history provides a fascinating microcosm ...
The judicially created federal reserved rights doctrine provides that when the federal government wi...
The reserved water rights doctrine is — and always has been — a controversial doctrine in Western wa...
A single, century-old court decision affects the water rights of nearly everyone in the West. The Su...
In 1976, the United States Supreme Court decided Colorado River Water Conservation District v. Unite...
On January 6, 1908, the Supreme Court ruled that when land is set aside for the use of Indian tribes...
The story of water in the American West shows that political intervention is unnecessary. Local inst...
The story of Kleppe v. New Mexico dramatizes how assertion of federal power advancing national con...
Attempts to alter water use agreements, especially those spanning back decades or even centuries, el...
As one who took an early interest in the water rights of American Indian tribes (American Indian Wat...
Document: 88th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, Document No. 20, Determination of the Rights of the St...
Recently, resistance to the All-American Canal Lining Project came from both sides of the border as ...