Temple Stoellinger

Associate Professor, ENR and Law

Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources

University of Wyoming College of Law

JD/MA Program Coordinator

(307) 766-6450 | tstoelli@uwyo.edu | Ross Hall, Rm 422 | CV

 

Education

JD University of Wyoming, with Honors (2010)

BS University of Wyoming, with Honors (2004)

 

Background and Expertise

Temple Stoellinger joined the University of Wyoming in 2013. Temple has a dual appointment at the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources where she is an associate professor, and the College of Law where she co-directs the Center for Law and Energy Resources in the Rockies.

Before joining the University of Wyoming, Temple most recently served as the natural resource attorney for the Wyoming County Commissioners Association (WCCA). Through this role Temple provided legal advice and engaged in litigation on issues pertaining to energy and natural resource law of behalf of the boards of county commissioner in Wyoming’s 23 counties.

Prior to working for the WCCA, Temple worked in the Projects and Technology Legal Department for Shell, International B.V. at their world headquarters in the Netherlands. From 2004-2010 Temple served as a natural resource analyst and advisor to Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal where she had the opportunity to work on a wide variety of energy and natural resource issues of statewide, regional, and national significance.

 

Teaching

ENR 5890(06)/Law 6915(11)     Wildlife Law

ENR 4750/4750                        Environment and Natural Resources Law and Policy

ENR 5000                                 Approaches to Environmental Problem Solving

ENR 5890                                 JD/MA Plan B Thesis Writing Seminar

 

Selected Publications

Temple Stoellinger, H. Jo Albers, Arthur Middleton and Jason Shogren, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: Conserving Big-Game Migrations as an Endangered Phenomena, 31(2) Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, 81-161 (2020).

Arthur Middleton, Temple Stoellinger, Harshad Karandikar, Bryan Leonard, Holly Doremus, and Claire Kremen, Harnessing Visitors’ Enthusiasm for National Parks to Fund Cooperative Large-Landscape Conservation. Accepted, Conservation Science and Practice (May 2020).  Research brief.

Temple Stoellinger, Michael Brennan, Sara Brodnax, Ya-Wei Li, Murray Feldman, Bob Budd, Sam Kalen, Improving Cooperative State and Federal Species Conservation, 19 Wyo. L. Rev. 184 (2020).  Research brief and website.

Temple Stoellinger, L. Steven Smutko, Jessica M. Western, Collaboration Through NEPA to Achieve a Social License to Operate on Federal Public Lands, 39 Pub. Land & Resources L. Rev. 203 (2018). 

Temple Stoellinger, Wildlife Issus are Local – So Why Isn’t ESA Implementation? 44.3 Ecology Law Quarterly, 681 (2017). Research brief.

Temple Stoellinger and David “Tex” Taylor, A Report on the Economic Impact to Wyoming’s Economy From a Potential Listing of the Sage Grouse, 17 Wyo. L. Rev. 79 (2017).

Tara Righetti, Dalia Patino-Echeverri, Rob Godby, Temple Stoellinger, and Kipp Coddington, The Role of Energy Models: Characterizing the Uncertainty of the Future Electricity System to Design More Efficient and Effective Laws, 8 Geo Wash. J. of Energy & Envtl. L. 56 (2017).

Temple Stoellinger, Tara Righetti, and Kipp Coddington, The Expanding Role of the Social Cost of Carbon in Energy Project Development, 29(1) The Electricity Journal, 63 (2016). 

 

Other Works

Temple Stoellinger, Federal Lands in Public Lands; The Long History of Congressional Intent to Keep Public Lands Public; An Interview with Bob Keiter, 9 Western Confluence (Fall 2018).

Temple Stoellinger, “Having Your Voice Heard: How to Effectively Get the Agency’s Attention in a NEPA Comment to Affect the Final Decision,” National Environmental Policy Act 9-1 (Rocky Mt. Min. L. Fnd. 2017).

Temple Stoellinger, Of Ranchers and Researchers, Trespassing to Collect Data in Wyoming is a Crime, 6 Western Confluence 43-44 (Summer 2016).

Temple Stoellinger, When Your Outdoor Adventure Becomes More Than You Seek, Wyoming Lawyer, 20 (June 2016).

Bailey Schreiber and Temple Stoellinger, Rails-to-Trails…Derailed?, 1 Western Confluence 20 (Summer 2014).

Temple Stoellinger; Policy Brief: The Implications of a Sage Grouse Listing For Energy Development, National Agricultural & Rural Development Policy Center, Brief 33 (June 2014).

Temple Stoellinger ; Seeing Through the Regional Haze, Wyoming Lawyer, 34 (Feb. 2013).

Temple Stoellinger, Micah Christensen, Conner Nicklas, Fish Creek Water Quality Legal Analysis. June 2017.