This seminar will focus on current and emerging water resource issues in land and water conservation, including the challenges posed by climate change, aridification and hydrological variability. Presenters will walk participants through a complex ranch conservation opportunity involving multiple water rights and competing conservation values on adjacent private and public lands on an over-appropriated stream. Finally, the seminar will explore the use of conservation easements and other legal restrictions on the use of water to restore and sustain western rivers and aquifers. The presenters are practicing attorneys in the Rocky Mountain, Intermountain and Pacific Coastal states.