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Conservatives: It’s safe to support renewable energy

By jwatson | Published: October 6, 2017

Adam Aton, E&E News reporter Published: Friday, October 6, 2017 Republican activists and lawmakers gathered yesterday just off Capitol Hill to talk about folding low-emissions energy policy into the conservative playbook.The Conservative Clean Energy Summit, organized by the Christian Coalition, framed renewable energy policy in terms of how it can advance the right’s fundamental priorities.  Read more…

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Dam Removal on U.S. Waterways Creates Tremendous Land Investment Opportunities

By jwatson | Published: May 15, 2014

As “A Catalyst in Land Investment” Terraqua follows current events and trends with an eye to interpret possible positive or negative impacts on land resource values. In the case of slated dam removals along many stretches of important U.S. waterways, many private landowners along these waters benefit from the participation from increased property values created  Read more…

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EPA Proposes Clean Water Act Rule that Expands Waters EPA Regulates

By jwatson | Published: May 5, 2014

Last week the EPA announced a newly proposed “Waters of the U.S.” rule that expands the waters under the EPA’s jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.  There were U.S. Supreme Court rulings in 2001 and 2006 which defined waters EPA could regulate. The court in these rulings determined the EPA needs to establish a connection  Read more…

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Supreme Court rules for OK over TX in Interstate Water War

By jwatson | Published: June 13, 2013

The Supreme Court ruled today that Texas has no right to Oklahoma’s water.   This is a case that has been watched closely by landowners, oil & gas producers and other stakeholders, not just in Oklahoma and Texas, but in other arid western states. Texas had claimed a 1980 interstate water compact extended to its rights to tap  Read more…

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From Forest to Faucet

By jwatson | Published: March 11, 2013

Two weeks ago I joined my associates from Legacy LandBank, Joe Kelleher and Dick Ludington, at at the 2013 University of Georgia Timberland Conference held at Amelia Island Florida,  which included a spectrum of players in the the “timberland business” comprised of 500+ participants  public and private pension funds, private investors, family offices, fund of funds, REITs, brokers and advisors,  Read more…

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Make a little money and help fish too: The latest proposal to allow Wyoming ranchers to keep streams flowing for fish

By jwatson | Published: November 13, 2012

By Kelsey Dayton WyoFile  http://wyofile.com/2012/11/new-proposal-could-allow-wyo-ranchers-to-keep-streams-flowing/ Wyoming is a land of natural resources. But it isn’t the coal or natural gas that many hold most protectively. It’s water. Competition for water sometimes leads to adversarial relationships between agriculture and fishermen, yet both interests have worked for years to find areas of compromise and their efforts may  Read more…

Also posted in Agriculture, Biodiversity, Conservation Banking, ecosystem services, Ranches, Recreational Land, Water, Water rights, Wetland Banking, Wyoming | Leave a comment

“If You Build it, They Will Come”
Conservation Banking in Wyoming

By jwatson | Published: May 16, 2011
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“If you build it, they will come” is a line that originated in the 1988 movie “Field of Dreams”.  This expression has since morphed within real estate circles to an expression used jokingly or sarcastically, referring to a phenomena common to speculative real estate developers’ and investors’ exuberant early project stage state-of-mind.  If you build  Read more…

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