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April 30, 2021 Ellen Yeatman A study by a University of Wyoming agricultural and applied economics student exploring a proposed water demand management program on the Upper Green River Basin has received the Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award. The thesis by Ellen Yeatman, a College of Agriculture and Natural Resources master’s student, titled “Ranch-level Economic and Ecological Tradeoffs of Water Demand Management in the Upper Green River Basin,” examines a program that would try to alleviate the water supply and demand imbalance within the Colorado River Basin. “The Upper Basin states are currently working right now to figure out what are the best ways to meet their obligations to the Colorado River Compact to the Lower Basin states to not deplete the river,” says Kristi Hansen, an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. “Basically, Ellen is looking at a new kind of conservation

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