Aaron joined the Trust in 2015 after nearly seven years in private practice litigating and counseling clients on a wide range of legal matters. He has litigated citizen suits, administrative appeals, and other contested matters under the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Federal Land Policy and Management Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and several other environmental statutes. After studying at Duke University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Aaron moved west so that he could ramble out yonder in the region’s peerless landscapes. Those landscapes — that they may be preserved for others and in their own right — inspire his advocacy for the Colorado Plateau.
Aaron Paul
Staff Attorney
“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you’re dead.”
— Tom Stoppard
Plateau favorites
- The Doll House, on Halloween
- Lava Falls, right side up
- Humphreys Peak, on a road bike
- North Kaibab Trail, skis aloft
Some inspirations
- My guitar and synth
- A long trail run
- Untracked powder
- A throwback on the dance floor
Standout fiction
- Tenth of December by George Saunders
- Stoner by John Williams
- The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
