The “Listening with Water” initiative is intended to facilitate exchanges of knowledges about water in Wyoming to replenish understandings of our planet’s lifeblood. In concert with the international Dear Body of Water project and facilitated by Neltje Interdisciplinary Arts Fellow Gretchen Ernster Henderson, this initiative will engage arts-based methods to grow conversations toward collaborative care for watersheds and the unique role water plays in all aspects of Western life.
Over the course of a year, through gatherings with arts and environment knowledge leaders, literary workshops, listening walks, an exhibition and public art, the yearlong project ”Listening with Water” brings Wyomingites together to reflect on our relationship with water and the ways it flows through Wyoming’s collective histories, shapes present practices, and offers a wellspring of future possibilities.
Piney Island Native Plants, LLC (PINP) was founded in 2019 by Conservation Horticulturist Alisha Bretzman. Alisha combined her passions, education, diverse work experience, and professional network to form Piney Island Native Plants, LLC. PINP germinated with the help of the University of Wyoming’s Technology Business Center and 2019 Start-Up Challenge, receiving both finalist and audience choice awards (read more here). Currently, PINP operates in partnership with Sheridan College to lease facilities in the SC agricultural complex. Thanks to these opportunities, PINP has created a solid foundation and is taking root!
The public works department is involved in many aspects of the maintenance and development of the city of Sheridan. Mercer’s duties include overseeing the city’s engineering, planning, building, streets, signs and parks.
Carrie was raised in Campbell County and has lived in Sheridan and worked for the SCCD since 1998. She is responsible for coordinating SCCD's watershed program, grant writing and fundraising, and overall project and program oversight.
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Professor Robison loves western North America, and his writing revolves around water, public lands, and Native peoples in this magical part of the world, as well as comparative and international projects involving these areas. He authors the treatise Law of Water Rights and Resources, and he is the editor of Cornerstone at the Confluence: Navigating the Colorado River Compact's Next Century, and the lead editor of Vision & Place: John Wesley Powell & Reimagining the Colorado River Basin. Recent journal articles include Relational River: Arizona v. Navajo Nation & the Colorado, 72 UCLA L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2025); Equity Along the Yellowstone, 96 Colo. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2025); and Re-Indigenizing Yellowstone, 22 Wyo. L. Rev. 397 (2022).