Natural Resources Symposium

july 22, 2025 state-of-the-practice meeting:

 A MULTI-STAKEhOLDER REVIEW OF FAST-PACED CHANGES AND NEW EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   

RESOURCE materials

Additional resource materials will be posted here, as available.

Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Management Group

• Press Release: Unique Multi-Stakeholder Natural Resource Meeting to Provide Opportunity for Cross-Sector Dialogue and Engagement with Public and Private Sector Counterparts to Shape More Collaborative and Efficient Approaches (July 2025)

• Best Practice Approach Frameworks in the Context of Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration: PFAS, Climate, Remediation/Restoration and Emergency Response/Restoration (December 2024)

Barbara J. Goldsmith, Executive Director, Ad-Hoc Industry Natural Resource Management Group; President, Barbara J. Goldsmith & Company LLC

• “What’s Happening with Management of Natural Resources?”, Environmental Law Reporter (2024)

David Kreutzer, First Assistant Attorney General, Colorado Department of Law

• State of Colorado Department of Law Comments on DOI Proposed Rule on Natural Resource Damage Type A Regulations; Regulation Identifier Number (RIN) 1090–AB26 (April 2024)

• Guidance: Colorado Natural Resource Damages Restoration Project Selection Process and Administration of the Colorado Resource Damage Recovery Fund (September 2022)

Theodore Tomasi, Ph.D., Senior Principal - Natural Resources and Environmental Economics, Integral Consulting

• Tomasi, Theodore, Andrew Bechard and R. William Cooper, “Discounting in Damage Assessments for Ecological Injuries: An Introduction to the Issues” (June 2025)

• International Oil Spill Conference Article: Considering Environmental Justice in Restoration Decision-Making (2024)

Other Resource Materials Suggested by  Meeting Participants

• Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, “Agency Guidance for Implementing Gold Standard Science in the Conduct & Management of Scientific Activities” (June 2025)