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The Local's Show - "Leading with Love" with Nicole Lindstrom and Host Erik Skarvan by GrassPods

Speaker: Sara Porterfield, PhD

Description: The Colorado River has long served as an icon of the arid American West and the central character in the story of human manipulation of water resources in the United States. However, the Colorado River Basin has shaped and been shaped by the development and use of rivers around the world. In this talk, Sara Porterfield will explore the history of a global exchange of information, technology, and ideology between the Colorado River Basin and international river basins in the late nineteenth century—an exchange that continues to the present day. Through stories of the engineers, bureaucrats, policymakers, and whitewater boaters who traveled to and from the Colorado River Basin to rivers around the world, she will show how the international history of the Colorado River Basin can help us better understand the past while also providing valuable lessons and insights for current policymaking and water management decisions.

Speaker Bio: Sara Porterfield, PhD, is a historian, river guide, educator, author, and founder of Tributaries Consulting whose work focuses on the Colorado River Basin and water in the American West. Sara’s love of the Colorado River began during childhood on family road trips across the West. After college, her interest in the river led her to working for the Colorado Outward Bound School where she has guided trips on the rivers of the Colorado Basin since 2005. Not content with just floating the river, Sara began her doctoral studies in order to understand the natural and human history of the Colorado and water in the West. After graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder with a PhD in History, Sara founded Tributaries Consulting in 2018 in order to bring historical perspectives to the Western water community through research, writing, education, and public outreach. Sara, her husband Jeff, and their pups make their home in Boulder, Colorado. When not writing about or researching the rivers of the West she enjoys running rivers, drinking coffee, trail running, eating chocolate, and doing yoga.

Naturalist Nights are brought to you through a partnership between the Wilderness Workshop, Aspen Center for Enviornmental Studies (ACES) and Roaring Fork Audubon.

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The Great Debate is a public program inviting elevated, engaged conversations around questions that unpack our opinions around art and beyond. Following the centuries-old format of the Oxford Union, the proposition “Are Facts Fundamental to Truth?” will be debated by four luminaries—two for and two against. Once the speakers have put forth their arguments, the discussion will open up to the audience for deliberation and a final vote.

Moderator: Alycin Bektesh, News Director, Aspen Public Radio

For the proposition:

1. Brent Gardner-Smith, Editor and Executive Director of Aspen Journalism

2. Curtis Wackerle, Editor of the Aspen Daily News

Against the proposition:

1. Cindy Hircshfeld, Editor in Chief of Aspen Sojourner

2. David Krause, Editor of the Aspen Times

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