Experience

San Juan Citizens Alliance

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Apr 2017 - Present

  Previously Executive Director 2000 – 2009. Direct community-based, grassroots non-profit conservation organization in the San Juan Basin of southwest Colorado and northwest New Mexico. • Create and implement strategic campaign plans for wilderness protection, river conservation, global warming, and responsible oil and gas development. • Signature campaigns: preventing resort development of the San Juan River’s East Fork Valley, stalling Desert Rock coal-fired power plant, preserving HD Mountains roadless area from coalbed methane drilling, launching 50,000-acre Northern San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act, and drafting Dolores River National Conservation Area proposal.



Self-employed Conservation Consulting

• Durango, CO

• Land Conservation Consultant

  • Jan 1998 - Mar 2017

  Over the past 15 years, completed land acquisition assessments and biodiversity proposals for clients including Wilderness Land Trust (CO), Friends of the Desert Mountains (CA), San Juan Citizens Alliance (CO), Bureau of Land Management (CA and AZ), The Wilderness Society (CO), The Wildlands Conservancy (CA), and Resources Legacy Fund (CA). • Major projects included an inventory and acquisition prioritization for 2,000 inholdings in California Desert wilderness areas for BLM California State Office. • Completed project identifying over 1,000 parcels in pending California wilderness areas for Resources Legacy Fund. • Completed inventories and prioritization of national forest and BLM wilderness inholdings in California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, and Colorado for the Wilderness Land Trust.



Greater Yellowstone Coalition

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Conservation Program Director

  • 2009 - 2013

  Managed Greater Yellowstone Coalition’s conservation programs across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, which includes parts of three states – Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Synthesized information in science, politics and public opinion to guide high profile conservation advocacy to protect the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and to work with a wide range of agencies, groups and the general public. Provided strategic, supportive leadership to an experienced staff by establishing a cohesive, positive team approach and leading by example. Supervised a dozen conservation professionals and managed a conservation program budget of $2 million.



The Wilderness Land Trust

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice President

  • 1993 - 1999

  The Wilderness Land Trust is a small, non-profit land trust devoted to acquisition and protection of private inholdings within federal wilderness areas. • Planned land acquisitions including identification and prioritization of parcels. • Negotiated purchase contracts with landowners of wilderness inholdings located in Colorado, Arizona, and California. • Completed due diligence on properties prior to closing. • Lobbied for congressional LWCF appropriations. • Coordinated media relations, drafted press releases, generated media coverage.