Sarah Bates

Senior Fellow

Sarah Bates is a Senior Fellow with the Public Policy Research Institute at the University of Montana. She holds a J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law (1988) and a B.S. in Wildlife Biology and Political Science from Colorado State University (1984). Ms. Bates has written extensively on natural resources policy and law, beginning with a book about western water policy co-authored with Marc Reisner in 1990. While serving as the Associate Director at the University of Colorado's Natural Resources Law Center, she published three books, several law review articles, and numerous research reports and papers. She is a frequent speaker on western resource policy, with an emphasis on water law. Ms. Bates helped establish and was the managing editor of the Chronicle of Community, a publication of the Northern Lights Research & Education Institute in Missoula, Montana. The journal culminated in a book published by Island Press, Across the Great Divide: Explorations in Collaborative Conservation and the American West, of which Ms. Bates is a contributing editor. She serves on the advisory board of the William Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, the board of directors of the Clark Fork Coalition, and is a fellow in the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Leadership Program.

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