About the Gina Guy Center for Land and Water
The Center takes a holistic approach to stewardship, balancing conservation and sustainable use to address the evolving challenges of managing natural resources in a changing world. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, it integrates expertise from law, environmental science, and policy to develop innovative solutions to public and private resource challenges. Together, the Center and its collaborators focus on finding solutions to public and private resource challenges, advancing innovative and practical approaches for a resilient future.
Our Leadership
Temple Stoellinger is the Associate Dean of the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and a Wyoming Excellence Chair at the University of Wyoming. She holds a dual appointment in the Haub School and the College of Law, where she co-directs the Gina Guy Center for Land and Water Law.
Jason is the Carl M. Williams Professor of Law & Social Responsibility, the Co-Director of the Gina Guy Center for Land and Water Law, and an adjunct professor at the Haub School. His research and teaching revolve around water, public lands, and Native peoples in western North America, including comparative and international projects in these areas.
Emily Wangen is a third-year law student in the JD/MA-ENR program with a particular interest in water and public lands law. Before law school, Emily moved to Wyoming from Minnesota and Iowa and spent two years as a legislative editor at the Wyoming Legislative Service Office, where she first became interested in natural resources and environmental issues in the Mountain West.
About Gina Guy
Gina Guy graduated from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 1964 and later earned a Juris Doctorate from the UW College of law in 1975. She went on to have an impressive and storied career in law spanning several decades of service as a lawyer, regional Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and later as Deputy General Counsel for the Air Force at the Pentagon. Gina was passionate about the environment, the outdoors, and the symphony.
The Patten-Davis Foundation made a gift to the University of Wyoming in 2020 in honor of Gina Guy (UW College of Law Class 1975).
Click here to read Gina Guy’s memorial in the Wyoming State BAr’s Wyoming Lawyer (August 2018).
