The meeting will include a one-day field trip to the sites of the Big Thompson flood and the Lawn Lake dam break of 1982. Federal Emergency Management Agency and others. The Endangered Species Act is up for reauthorization and there is much discussion of why we should protect biodiversity and how best to do so. The June 10-12 conference of the Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law, will examine the rationale for biodiversity protection, the legal framework of the Endangered Species Act, and examples of implementation of the Act throughout the West. The conference will also address the ESA reform proposals.
All fees go up one week prior to program.
This event provides a forum for members of the mining community, engineers and scientists serving the mining industry, regulatory groups, and other interest groups concerned with environmental issues related to tailings and mine waste management. The conference has proven to be an exciting place for attendees to present ideas, learn of new developments, make contacts in their professional fields and discuss problems of mutual interest. Issues of mining, milling, environmental geotechnics, mining engineering, tailings management, geohydrology, geochemistry and other related topics will be covered in focused sessions. Authors are requested to submit a short one-page abstract by June 14, 1996. June 24-28, 1996.