• Retained in June 2025 as expert witness by the Utah Attorney General's Office, Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands (“FFSL”) in the litigation known as Andrea Oveson, as Trustee of the SHCH Alaska Trust, et al. v. Utah Department of Transportation, et al., Civil No. 230500021, 4th District Court, Wasatch County, State of Utah. Tasked to provide consulting and testifying expert services to the Utah AG representing FFSL where historical evidence will be required regarding “the navigability” of the lower Provo River in 1896. Also, possibly to prepare a report or give deposition testimony regarding the historical evidence on the lower Provo River of commercial transport of goods and/or people.

• Retained in May 2019 as expert witness by Richards, Brandt, Miller, Nelson on behalf of the Utah Stream Access Coalition. Tasked to research and write a historical report describing 19th century Utahns’ non-consumptive uses (e.g. fishing, fur trapping, baptisms, laundering, market waterfowl hunting, swimming, recreating, water-powered mills, installation of irrigation diversion works, etc.) of Utah's waters “in place,” with primary emphasis on rivers, streams and springs and a secondary emphasis on natural lakes and ponds. Report addressed questions from the Utah Supreme Court’s February 2019 remanding of Utah Stream Access Coalition v. VR Acquisitions. The final ruling in August 2021 stated “that the Court accepts as true all of the historical facts set forth in the Coalition’s opposition memorandum...these facts support the Coalition’s two central contentions” in the Expert Report. The court ultimately found in favor of the opposition on a legal “threshold” question outside the bounds of the historical evidence.

• Expert witness report and testimony on Weber River History for Richards, Brandt, Miller, Nelson on behalf of the Utah Stream Access Coalition, 2012-February 2015. I served as the expert historical witness over four days of testimony and cross-examination in Utah’s 3rd District Court for a trial to determine the proper jurisdiction over and use of the Weber River in northern Utah. My extensive 60+-page historical report, based on original research in primary source documents, became the foundation for the judge’s favorable verdict. The decision was upheld by the Utah Supreme Court in November of 2017 (Utah Stream Access Coalition v. Orange Street Development). The key holding was based on my report: “We conclude that there was sufficient evidence to support the district court’s determination that the relevant stretch of the Weber River was commercially useful on a regular basis, and not merely in an occasional season of high water. And we deem that evidence sufficient to establish navigability of the river where it crosses the property at issue in this case.”

This expert witness report became: “Driving Utah’s Rivers: Working Water in the West,” Utah Historical Quarterly, Vol. 90, no. 2 (Spring 2022), 110-132. It won the Dale L. Morgan Award for best scholarly article in 2022 for the Utah Historical Quarterly