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Anne MacKinnon

Water-law scholar Anne MacKinnon lives in Casper. She is a former editor-in-chief of the Casper Star-Tribune and served from 2003 through 2010 on the Wyoming Water Development Commission.

Order out of Chaos: Elwood Mead and Wyoming’s water law

Elwood Mead was only 30 in 1888 when Territorial Gov. Thomas Moonlight hired him to bring order to Wyoming’s water law. As territorial engineer Mead did just that, and his ideas were written into the state constitution adopted in 1890. Mead spent only 11 years in Wyoming, but all his life carried with him what he learned in the state.

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Essay : January 31, 2011 - 10:28pm