Annual Symposium
The Wallace Stegner Center annually holds a symposium during spring semester on an environmental or natural resources topic of regional, national, and international importance. The symposium is interdisciplinary in nature, and includes speakers from the sciences and social sciences, academia, government, industry, and the legal profession.
Through the symposia and other programs, the Stegner Center has brought numerous luminaries to the College of Law, including Bruce Babbitt, Sally Jewell, Wendell Berry, Helen Caldicott, Jane Goodall, Bill McKibben, Pat Mulroy, Naomi Oresekes, Lynn Scarlett, George Schaller, Michael Soule, Sandra Steingraber, Lawrence Susskind, Rebecca Watson, Terry Tempest Williams, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Eric Freyfogle, John Leshy, Patty Limerick, Pamela Matson, Zygmunt Plater, Robert V. Percival, Joe Sax, Paul Schullery, Alan Weisman, and Charles Wilkinson among others.
The R. Harold Burton Foundation was the founding donor for the symposium in 1996 and has been the principal donor each year. Other donors who have provided support for multiple years include the Cultural Vision Fund, Chevron, the Nature Conservancy in Utah, and ABA SEER.
Symposium Lectures
Past Symposia
Twenty-fifth Annual Symposium, 2020
Food and the Environment: Resilient and Equitable Food Security for the West
Twenty-fourth Annual Symposium, 2019
Recreation Challenges on Public Lands
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Twenty-third Annual Symposium, 2018
Public Lands in a Changing West
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Twenty-third Annual Symposium, 2017
Water in the West
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Twenty-third Annual Symposium, 2016
Green Infrastructure, Resilient Cities: New Challenges, New Solutions
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Twentieth Annual Symposium, 2015
Air Quality: Health, Energy and Economics
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Nineteenth Annual Symposium, 2014
National Parks: Past, Present and Future
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Eighteen Annual Symposium, 2013
Religion, Faith and the Environment
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Seventeenth Annual Symposium, 2012
Silent Spring at 50: The Legacy of Rachel Carson
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Sixteenth Annual Symposium, 2011
Wildlife Conservation in the 21st Century
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Fifteenth Annual Symposium, 2010
The Challenge of Sustainability
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Fourteenth Annual Symposium, 2009
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Legacy
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Thirteenth Annual Symposium, 2008
Alternative Energy: Seeking Climate Change Solutions
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Twelfth Annual Symposium, 2007
The Colorado River Compact in the 21st Century: Time for Change?
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Eleventh Annual Symposium, 2006
Global Climate Change: The Arctic to the Rocky Mountain West
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Tenth Annual Symposium, 2005
Private Property and Nature Conservation: Land Ownership in the 21st Century
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Ninth Annual Symposium, 2004
Wilderness: Preserving Nature in a Political World
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Eighth Annual Symposium, 2003
The Nuclear West: Legacy and Future
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Seventh Annual Symposium, 2002
Seventh Annual Symposium, 2002
Powell and Stegner: Fifty Years After The Hundredth Meridian
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Sixth Annual Symposium, 2001
Metropolitan Growth: From Regional Visions to Real Results
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Fifth Annual Symposium, 2000
The Presidency and the Environment: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Fourth Annual Symposium, 1999
Where the Rivers Flow: Sharing Watersheds and Boundaries
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Third Annual Symposium, 1998
Exploring Aldo Leopold’s Legacy: The Land Ethic and the American West in the 21st Century
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Second Annual Symposium, 1997
To Cherish and Renew: Restoring Western Ecosystems and Communities
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First Annual Symposium, 1996
The Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology and the West
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