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7 U. Denv. Water L. Rev. 309 (2003-2004)
Leasing Water Rights for Instream Flow Protection: The Opportunities and Impediments to Improved Public Interest Involvement in Colorado's Instream Flow Protection Regime

handle is hein.journals/udenwr7 and id is 319 raw text is: LEASING WATER RIGHTS FOR INSTREAM FLOW PROTECTION: THE OPPORTUNITIES AND IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVED PUBLIC INTEREST INVOLVEMENT IN COLORADO'S INSTREAM FLOW PROTECTION REGIMEt JASON S. WELLS: I. Introduction ........................................................................ 310 II. A Brief History of Colorado's Instream Flow Protection Regim e ............................................................... 312 III. The Competing Uses ........................................................... 315 A . A griculture ........................................................................... 315 B. U rban Expansion ................................................................ 316 C . C onservation ........................................................................ 317 IV. A Potential Solution: A Guide to Successful Split-Season and Dry-Year Leasing Programs ........................................... 319 A. Split-Season and Dry-Year Leases ........................................ 321 1. Split-Season Leases ......................................................... 321 2. D ry-Year Leases ............................................................... 322 B. How Lease Acquisitions Are Facilitated: Two Progressive State M odels ..................................................... 323 1. Montana: The Journey Toward Private Acquisition ..... 324 2. The Oregon Water Trust: Innovator in Private Facilitation ...................................................................... 334 C. Growing Interest and Commitment of Resources to Private ISF R ights ............................................................ 344 t The author would like to express his sincere gratitude to the following for their guidance, insight and patience in assisting with the completion of this article: John Carney, Executive Director, Colorado Water Trust; Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Michael F. Browning, Porzak, Browning & Bushong; Anne Janicki, Colorado Water Conservation Board; Melinda Kassen, Colorado Trout Unlimited; Laura Zeimer, Montana Trout Unlimited, John Ferguson, Montana Water Trust; Fritz Paulus, Oregon Water Trust; Drs. Lloyd Burton and Robert Gage, University of Colorado Denver Graduate School of Public Affairs; and the staff and Editorial Board of the Water Law Review. Each of these individuals was instrumental, in their varying capacities, to establishing and maintaining the scope of this paper, fleshing out the principal issues, and focusing the author's approach to an oftentimes overwhelming subject area. t Jason S. Wells received hisJD from the University of Denver College of Law in May 2002 and MPA from the University of Colorado Denver Graduate School of Public Affairs in December 2003.

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