{"id":5896,"date":"2025-04-02T20:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/?page_id=5896"},"modified":"2025-05-07T22:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:54:44","slug":"dam-nation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/dam-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dam Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--full-width-image-and-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--full-width-image-and-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"image-container\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/03\/2357388a-4c62-d444-62d6-694160788b46-768x432.png\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/icw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/03\/2357388a-4c62-d444-62d6-694160788b46-768x432.png 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"photo of dam\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--eyebrow\">\n\n    \n  <span>ICW 20th Anniversary Conference<\/span>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Dam Nation: The Fate &#038; Future of Dams in the American West\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Recordings from the Day:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GTPzdSLADx0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Session 1:<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reclamation &amp; Regional Power<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moderator: Bill Deverell, ICW<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Josh Lappen, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Notre Dame<\/li>\n<li>Meena Westford, San Diego County Water Authority and formerly of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interlude: Western Dams, Western Climates <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/akMpVNUR6G8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniel Swain, Climate Scientist at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/llnTCcTigaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Session 2:<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Up? Down?: Environmental Consequences of Western Dams<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A conversation between Jay Taylor, Environmental historian at Simon Fraser University and Elizabeth Logan, ICW<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RJfWuuaGHEE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Session 3:<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Dams Come Down: On the Klamath River<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moderated by Jessica Kim, Professor of History, CSUN &amp; Director of Social Media, ICW<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Jacques Leslie, <i>Los Angeles Times<\/i> contributing opinion writer<\/li>\n<li>Brittani Orona, UC President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow, History Department, UC Santa Cruz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fcz8Yvq7h1w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Interlude:<\/strong> Rocky Mountain Watersheds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bradley Udall, Senior Water and Climate Research Scientist\/Scholar at Colorado State University\u2019s Colorado Water Institute<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/leCScVzszWs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Session 4:<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Problem that is Glen Canyon<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moderator:<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jennifer Sahn, Editor in Chief of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High Country News<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Erika Bsumek, History Department, University of Texas at Austin<\/li>\n<li>Wade Graham, writer, historian and trustee of Glen Canyon Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/K7Ip4hazcr4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Event Keynote: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Colorado River: Drought, Dams, and the Future<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome: Sue Juster, Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington &amp; Moh El-Naggar, Interim Dean of USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts &amp; Sciences<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evening Conversation: Jeff Kightlinger in conversation with Bill Deverell, ICW<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n      <\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                  \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--accordions \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--accordions\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      <div class=\"header-container\">\n\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Panelist Information\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n      \n      \n    <\/div>\n  \n      <ul>\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-1-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-controls=\"section-1-1-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Erika Bsumek<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-1-HI5a86PZ9G\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-1-HI5a86PZ9G\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Bsumek is the Ellen Clark Temple Chair in Women&#8217;s History at the University of Texas at Austin. She has written on Native American history, environmental history\/studies, the history of the built environment, and the history of the U.S. West. Her latest book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(University of Texas Press, 2023) explores the social and environmental history of the area surrounding Glen Canyon on the Utah\/Arizona border from the 1840s to the present. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-2-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-controls=\"section-1-2-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Wade Graham<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-2-HI5a86PZ9G\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-2-HI5a86PZ9G\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Graham is a writer, historian, &amp; landscape designer with a practice based in Los Angeles. Since 1999, he has been a trustee of Glen Canyon Institute, a Colorado River restoration group based in Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-3-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-controls=\"section-1-3-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jeffrey Kightlinger<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-3-HI5a86PZ9G\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-3-HI5a86PZ9G\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Kightlinger was the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager for The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California from 2006 to 2021. Currently, Mr. Kightlinger is the owner of Acequia Consulting, LLC working with clients providing strategic advice on Colorado River issues, natural resources, water, and energy issues. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-4-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-controls=\"section-1-4-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Josh Lappen<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-4-HI5a86PZ9G\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-4-HI5a86PZ9G\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Lappen is a postdoctoral researcher at Notre Dame. A historian and engineer, he studies how energy networks shape and are shaped by local landscapes and political institutions. His historical work is grounded in the American West, and examines how emergent energy systems have provided new mechanisms for contesting governance, ideology, identity, and public memory. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-5-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-controls=\"section-1-5-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jacques Leslie<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-5-HI5a86PZ9G\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-5-HI5a86PZ9G\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Leslie is a<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contributing opinion writer and the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He is now writing a book about the last 25 years in the Klamath River basin.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-6-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-controls=\"section-1-6-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Brittani R. Orona<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-6-HI5a86PZ9G\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-6-HI5a86PZ9G\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Orona is a 2023-2025 UC President&#8217;s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz in the Department of History. Her research and teaching focus on Indigenous history and human rights, environmental studies, public humanities, and visual sovereignty. Orona is Hupa and an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-7-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-controls=\"section-1-7-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Jennifer Sahn<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-7-HI5a86PZ9G\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-7-HI5a86PZ9G\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms. Sahn is Editor in Chief of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">High Country News<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a magazine about the West. She previously served as Executive Editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pacific Standard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and as Editor of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Orion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> magazine before that. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-8-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-controls=\"section-1-8-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Joseph \u201cJay\u201d Taylor<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-8-HI5a86PZ9G\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-8-HI5a86PZ9G\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Taylor teaches environmental and western North American history in the History and Geography Departments at Simon Fraser University. His award-winning research addresses the salmon crisis, outdoor recreation, gentrification, and rural life. He is currently finishing a history of congressional conservation before World War II and a biography on the author of the Taylor Grazing Act.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n              <li>\n          <button type=\"button\" class=\"accordion-trigger \" id=\"heading-1-9-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-controls=\"section-1-9-HI5a86PZ9G\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-disabled=\"false\">\n                          <span class=\"item-title\">Meena Westford<\/span>\n            \n                      <\/button>\n\n          <div id=\"section-1-9-HI5a86PZ9G\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"heading-1-9-HI5a86PZ9G\" class=\"accordion-panel\">\n\n                            \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms. Westford rejoined the San Diego County Water Authority in 2024, after serving for the previous 12 years as an executive policy advisor for Colorado River Programs at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. At the Water Authority, Westford reports to the general manager and is responsible for the Colorado River and the Metropolitan Water District Programs. During the 1990s and early 2000s, Westford served for 17 years at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in a variety of capacities and locations, including the California-Great Basin Region, the Lower Colorado Basin Region, and several stints in Washington, D.C. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n            \n                      <\/div>\n        <\/li>\n\n          <\/ul>\n  \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n                                        \n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--image-gallery \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--image-gallery\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n\n      <div class=\"text-container\">\n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Images of Dams Across the American West\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n          <\/div>\n    \n      <div id=\"gallery-1498938218\" class=\"gallery-container\">\n\n      <div 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