News That Matters » water http://www.planputnam.org/ntm Brought to you by PlanPutnam.Org Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:00:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Morning Eye Candy: Contrast http://www.nybg.org/plant-talk/2011/09/photography/morning-eye-candy-contrast/ http://www.nybg.org/plant-talk/2011/09/photography/morning-eye-candy-contrast/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:00:57 +0000 Ann Rafalko http://www.nybg.org/plant-talk/?p=12767
A photographic diptych featuring contrasting textures and patterns in nature at The New York Botanical Garden. [...]]]> This article was first posted at Plant Talk by Ann Rafalko.

Duck Weed

Bark

Duck Weed

Photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen

]]> http://www.nybg.org/plant-talk/2011/09/photography/morning-eye-candy-contrast/feed/ 0 Benson on Prior Appropriation Doctrine in Western Water Law http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2011/05/benson-on-prior-appropriation-doctrine-in-western-water-law.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2011/05/benson-on-prior-appropriation-doctrine-in-western-water-law.html#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 16:24:10 +0000 landuseprof This article was first posted at Land Use Prof Blog by landuseprof.

Reed D. Benson (New Mexico) has posted Alive but Irrelevant: The Prior Appropriation Doctrine in Today’s Western Water Law, forthcoming in the Colorado Law Review. The abstract: The Prior Appropriation Doctrine has long been the foundation of laws governing water…

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Royal C. Gardner (Stetson) has posted Lawyers, Swamps, and Money: U.S. Wetland Law, Policy, and Politics. It is the introduction to his new book of the same name from Island Press (2011). The abstract: This paper is the table of…

]]> http://www.planputnam.org/ntm/2011/05/gardner-on-u-s-wetland-law-policy-and-politics/feed/ 0 The Spillover Effects of Flood Control http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2011/05/the-spillover-effects-of-flood-control.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2011/05/the-spillover-effects-of-flood-control.html#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 00:48:48 +0000 landuseprof This article was first posted at Land Use Prof Blog by landuseprof.

While waiting for the first stack of ungraded final exams to hit my desk this week, I’ve been following developments in a dispute between Illinois and Missouri over flooding along the Mississippi River. Rising floodwaters in the region presented federal…

]]> http://www.planputnam.org/ntm/2011/05/the-spillover-effects-of-flood-control/feed/ 0 U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Western Water Law Case http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2011/05/us-supreme-court-rules-on-western-water-law-case.html http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/land_use/2011/05/us-supreme-court-rules-on-western-water-law-case.html#comments Mon, 02 May 2011 17:14:44 +0000 landuseprof This article was first posted at Land Use Prof Blog by landuseprof.

As previously reported on this blog, the U.S. Supreme Court took on a relatively rare original-jurisdiction matter with the case of Montana v. Wyoming. Today, the Court ruled in a 7-1 opinion (Kagan recused; Scalia in dissent) to dismiss Montana’s…

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