On the 150th anniversary of John Wesley Powell’s first Colorado River run, the Honorable Judge Gregory Hobbs will revisit Powell's journeys into the Colorado River Plateau, and his genius as a first-hand leading spokesperson of the western experience. Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr., is a former Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and is the Distinguished Jurist in Residence and Co-Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. A leading expert on Colorado water law he is currently serving as a Senior Water Judge for the Colorado Courts and is assigned to the mediation of water cases.

This will be a free event open to the public; Friday, September 20th at 5:30 pm in the Student Union Ballroom on the campus of Fort Lewis College.

Sponsored by the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.