RAMSEY L. KROPF
kropf@waterlaw.com

Education

University of Colorado School of Law (J.D 1991)

University of Colorado (M.B.A. 1991)

University of Denver (B.S.B.A. 1984)

Hornbeck Scholar (1981-1984)

Van Derbur Scholarship (1981)

University of Denver Honors Scholarship (1980-1984)

Presentations & Publications

Co-Author and Presenter, Water Resources and Climate Change, co-authored with Will Stenzel, 14th Institute for Natural Resources Law Teachers, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Chico Hot Springs, Montana (May 2009).

Program Co-Chair, Colorado Water Law Conference, CLE International, Denver, CO (March 2008).

Guest Lecturer, University of Denver Law School, Indian Water Law Course (September 2007)

Author and Speaker, General Stream Adjudications, Water Management and a Crystal Ball, American Bar Assocation 25th Annual Water Law Conference, (Feb. 2007)

Author and Presenter, Mixing Gas with Water: Produced Water Impacts on Western Water Law, 14th Section Fall Meeting, American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, Annual Fall Meeting, San Diego, California, October 4-7, 2006

Essay author, Tribal Water Rights: Essays in Contemporary Law, Policy and Economics; Chapter 7, Essay on Indian Water Allotments, (John E. Thorson, Bonnie G. Colby, and Sarah Britton, editors) pending University of Arizona Press (2006)

Speaker, Historical Development of Water Law, New Mexico Judicial Education Center, Water Law Seminar for Water Law Judges and Special Masters, November 2005

Speaker, Trends in Water Litigation, Trial and Appellate Advocacy for Water Lawyers, Colorado Bar Association, October 2005

Author, Speaker, Lessons from Wyoming’s Big Horn River Adjudication, Dividing the Waters Conference of Judges and Special Masters, June 2005

Author, Dividing Western Waters: A Century of Adjudicating Western Rivers, co-authored with John Thorson, Andrea Gerlak and James Crammond, University of Denver Water Law Review, Vol. 8, Issue 2, Spring 2005

Contributor to Negotiating Tribal Water Rights: Fulfilling Promises in the Arid West, Bonnie G. Colby, John E. Thorson and Sarah Britton, University of Arizona Press (2005)

Welcoming host and sponsor, the ABA's 22nd Annual Water Law Conference, San Diego, (2004)

Author, Chapter 7B, Colorado Groundwater Law: Colorado’s System – Integration (Or Not?) of Groundwater and Surface Water, 49 Rocky Mt. Min. L. Inst. 7B1-18 (2003)

Speaker, Should Groundwater and Surface Water Rights Regimes Be Integrated? 49TH Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, San Diego, California (July, 2003)

Moderator/Speaker, Survey of Indian Water Law, American Bar Association's 21st Annual Water Law Conference, San Diego, CA (February, 2003)

Speaker, Washington State Water Disputes Task Force, General Stream Adjudications- What Works, What Doesn't, Seattle, WA (October 2002)

Co-author, An Insatiable Thirst: Sprawl and Western Water Law, ABA Natural Resources and Environment magazine,Vol. 15, No. 4, (Spring 2001)

Co-author, Colorado Water Law Update: Six Months of Colorado Supreme Court Cases, ABA Water Resources Committee Newsletter, Vol. 3, No.3, (May 2000)

Moderator/Speaker, The Evolving Nature of Beneficial Use, American Bar Association's Annual Water Law Conference, San Diego, CA (2000)

Guest Speaker, New Mexico General Assembly, Stream Adjudications (1999)

General Stream Adjudications: What Works and What Doesn't, Western Water Law Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, (1999)

Author, Water on the Web, article on Water Resources Information on the Internet, Water Resources Committee Newsletter (December 1998)

Dividing Western Waters, A Century of Adjudicating Western Rivers and Streams, CLE presentation, Conference of Judges and Special masters, Big Sky, Montana (1997)

General Stream Adjudications: Issues, Problems and Successes, Moderator American Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, 15th Annual Water law Conference, San Diego, CA (1997)

The Determination of Surface Water Rights Through the General Stream Adjudications, CLE co-presentation: Essential Issues in Natural Resources and Environmental Law, Flagstaff, AZ (1993)

Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association, Section on Environment, Energy & Resources Member

Council Member, ABA Section on Environment, Energy & Resources (2005-2008)

Board of Editors for Trends, the ABA Section on Environment, Energy & Resource Newsletter (2002 - 2005)

Annual Fall Meeting Planning Committee Member, ABA Section on Environment, Energy & Resources (2009, 2010)

Water Resources Committee Chair, American Bar Association, Section on Natural Resources and Environment (2003-2005); Vice Chair (2002-2003)

Co-Editor, Water Resources Committee Newsletter (2001-2003)

Co-Chair, American Bar Association, Annual Conference on Resources, Spring 2002

ABA Water Conference Committee member, 1998-2001

Co-Chair, American Bar Association, San Diego Water Law Conference, 2000

Colorado Bar Association, Wyoming Bar Association, Arizona Bar Association

Pitkin County Bar Association

Selected Professional Experience
Special Master, Big Horn River Adjudication, Wyoming District Court (1995 to present)

Admitted to practice in Wyoming in 1995

Attorney/Case Administrator, Arizona General Stream Adjudications (1992-1994)

Admitted to practice in Arizona in 1993

Admitted to practice in Colorado in 1992