Bryan Hurlbutt

Bryan joined the Advocates for the West as a staff attorney in October 2011.  As Idaho Water Fellow, he works on cases for the Idaho Conservation League to ensure that Idaho's lakes, rivers, and acquifers have clean, freeflowing, and abundant water.

While growing up in Twin Falls and Ketchum, Bryan spent much of his youth playing in the Snake River canyon and the mountains of south-central Idaho.  Bryan studied physics at Colorado College, where he explored the far reaches of the West as often as he could.  After college, Bryan worked for two years at the Colorado College State of Rockies Project, conducting data-driven research on environmental and socioeconomic issues in the West.  

Bryan attended Columbia Law School in Manhattan.  He was a devoted student in the Columbia Environmental Law Clinic for four semesters, served as a staff member of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law for two years, and worked as a summer legal intern at Hudson Riverkeeper (2008) and Waterkeeper Alliance (2009).

After graduating from law school in May 2010, Bryan moved with his wife Gretchen, daughter Hendrix, and dog Maddie to Boise.  Bryan worked for one year as a law clerk to Chief Justice Roger Burdick of the Idaho Supreme Court.  Bryan and his family spend time in the Boise Foothills nearly every day and spend most of their weekends enjoying Idaho's vast outdoors.