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• John Jordan has been involved in a number of businesses throughout his professional career. He was the owner and Chief Operation Officer of a group of companies that provided temporary medical employment services to metropolitan Phoenix and Tucson. In 1984 the combined businesses were sold the H&R Block Corporation as part of its corporate acquisition and expansion program. As a general partner in two different ventures, he was responsible for land acquisition and supervision of construction progress, project design, engineering, and subdivision approval through the State Department of Real Estate and Gila County. He has also served on various community service entities. He is a member of the Arizona Fly Casters Club in Phoenix and serves on the Club’s Conservation Committee. He belongs to the Federation of Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited and is familiar with the Lee’s Ferry fishery upriver to Glen Canyon Dam. His interests in fish extend beyond fishing and includes all fish in all settings.

He received a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan in 1965, and his Master’s Degree in 1969. He also served as a special agent for the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps from 1965 to 1968.

• (A) Mark Anderson (Glen Canyon National Recreation Area) has worked in aquatic resources management at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument since 1998. Prior to being at Glen Canyon, Mark Anderson attended the University of North Texas earning a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Environmental Science. At the Park, Mark served in three different positions within Aquatic Resources Management. Since 2002, Mark has been an Aquatic Ecologist and the Chief of Aquatic Resources Management.

• (M) Jan Balsom (Grand Canyon National Park). Jan’s work at GRCA began as a volunteer on the North Rim in the summer of 1981. She became a seasonal employee in 1982, and served as Park Archaeologist from May of 1984 until May of 1995. For the next 11 years, she served as the Chief of Cultural Resources for Grand Canyon National Park. In that capacity she oversaw the museum collection, historic preservation program, archaeological and Indian consultation programs. She also worked on the Glen Canyon Dam Environmental Impact Statement as both a resource specialist on the planning team and as the National Park Service environmental protection specialist during the drafting of the final EIS, Record of Decision, and Adaptive Management Program guidance. From May of 2006 to the present, she has served the acting Director of the Grand Canyon National Park Science Center. As a park manager, she provides technical and management direction for all resource management and research needs for Grand Canyon. Jan received her Bachelor's in anthropology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980. She completed her Master's in anthropology at Arizona State University in 1984, which included a thesis on Grand Canyon archaeology. She has worked for various archeological consultants, including Arizona State University and the State of New York Archaeological Survey, along with an internship at the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office. In addition to her work with the National Park Service, she serves as a committee member on the Arizona State Historic Sites Review Committee and an advisory board member for the Grand Canyon Music Festival.

• (M) Cliff Barrett (Utah Association of Municipal Power Systems) is a consultant for UAMPS. Prior to that he served as a consultant to the Colorado River Energy Distributors Association (CREDA) from April 1995 to May 2001 and from July 2003 to 2010. From February 1989 until April 1995 Mr. Barrett was Executive Director of CREDA, and directed the activities of the Association whose members represent over 125 customer-owned electric utilities in the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. He has over 32 years with the Bureau of Reclamation and his first assignment was in the Denver Design Office working on the design of Glen Canyon Dam. In September 1981 he was appointed Regional Director of the Upper Colorado Region. During this period he was also appointed Acting Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation for an extended period in 1985-86. Prior to coming to Salt Lake City in 1981, he had been Assistant Commissioner – Planning and Operations of the Bureau of Reclamation since August 1976. In that position he was responsible for policy development, planning, and operation of water resources in the 17 Western United States. He has a B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Denver and is a registered professional engineer. Cliff also retired from the U.S. Army Reserve with the rank of Lt. Colonel.

• (M) Charley Bulletts (Southern Paiute Consortium) is an enrolled member of the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians and serves as the AMWG representative for the Southern Paiute Consortium. Charley learned the physical knowledge of the Grand Canyon from his grandfather, the late Dan Bulletts, who was a traditionalist and healer who worked with various universities and authors. Charley’s grandmother taught him the healing benefits of various plants and a hands-on approach as she too was a traditionalist and healer. It is Charley’s belief that the efforts of the Southern Paiute Consortium would have made his grandparents very proud. The Consortium opens the doorway for the younger generations like himself to feel proud to be Southern Paiute.

• (A) Garry Cantley (Bureau of Indian Affairs) has over 25 years experience in archeology throughout many parts of North America. He received his undergraduate degree from the Universidad de las Americas in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico and a graduate degree from Arizona State University. He has been with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Phoenix, Arizona, since 1992 and has received numerous awards for superior performance. During his tenure he has represented BIA in numerous interagency organizations on both national and regional scales.

• (A) Todd Chaudhry (Grand Canyon National Park) was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended Duke University where he graduated Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences and Policy in 1997. As an undergraduate, he was awarded the Bookhout Research Scholarship, studied abroad for a semester in Australia through the School for International Training, and was a National Science Foundation intern on a fire ecology study in southern California through Pomona College. Upon graduation, Todd worked for a summer as a biological sciences technician on a coyote-sheep depredation study in northern Utah through Utah State University. He accepted his first permanent job in 1998 as an environmental protection specialist with the EPA’s Region 8 Brownfields Program in Denver, Colorado. He transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Red Bluff, California in 2001. He served for over two years as a fish and wildlife biologist and conducted Endangered Species Act section 7 consultations on federal land management projects in northern California, oversaw watershed restoration projects through the Jobs-in-the-Woods program, and provided SCUBA diving support for FWS’s fisheries program. In order to further pursue his interest in disturbance ecology and applied conservation biology, in 2003 Todd enrolled in graduate school at the University of Tasmania in Australia. His doctoral research focused on providing the first quantitative description of the buttongrass moorland avifauna and investigating responses to post-fire succession, primarily to help guide fire and conservation management within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Todd returned to the U.S. in 2009 to serve as the Eastern Washington Forests Program Manager with the Nature Conservancy in Wenatchee, Washington. He joined the National Park Service in November 2010 as the Watershed Stewardship Program Manager for Grand Canyon National Park. He currently resides in Flagstaff, Arizona.

• (M) Shane Capron (Western Area Power Administration) is a fish biologist at Western’s Corporate Services Office in Denver, Colorado. He attended the University of New Hampshire from 1988-1995 and received a Bachelor’s degree in Water Resources Management (1992) and a Master’s in Zoology (1995). From 1996-1998, he was in Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer working on watershed conservation projects in the Himalaya near the Tibetan border. In 1998 he returned to the U.S. and began work for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Alaska, first as a fisheries specialist and then soon after as the Steller Sea Lion Recovery Coordinator in the Protected Resources Division. While in Alaska he was the lead on drafting numerous high-profile section 7 consultations under the Endangered Species Act and was the coordinator for a recovery plan for Steller Sea Lions. He also did a 6-month in Portland, Oregon, working on various recovery plans for listed salmon species in the Columbia River. Shane and his family moved back to the lower-48 in 2007 to work with Western and was elected as the Technical Work Group Chair in July 2008. Shane has also served on the Biology Committee and is currently the alternate on the Management committee for the upper basin recovery program. In July 2012 Shane stepped down as the TWG Chair to move to the other side of the table to represent Western and the CRSP Management Center.
• (M) Kerry Christensen' (Hualapai Tribe) has been the Senior Scientist in the Hualapai Tribe’s Natural Resources Department for the past 14 years. He received his doctoral degree from Northern Arizona University in 1989 where he studied herbivore impacts on avian seed dispersal and mammalian seed predation of pinyon pine. Previously, he studied the ecology of river otters in central Arizona, and for his postdoctoral work he studied patterns of hybridization between two pinyon pine species and its associated effects on insect herbivore distributions. He currently oversees wildlife and vegetation monitoring programs on the Colorado River in lower Grand Canyon for the Hualapai Tribe as well as diversity of other environmental projects. He represents the Hualapai on the Lower Colorado Multispecies Conservation Program Steering Committee and has been involved with the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program since its inception.
• (M) Jerry Cox (Grand Canyon River Guides) is a geologist with Four Corners Geoscience, working on a state mandated groundwater testing associated with the Fruitland coalbed methane development in La Plata County, Colorado. Jerry has also worked as an exploration geologist for Carlin type disseminated gold deposits and molybdenum porphyry deposits. He worked as a field engineer in the Prudhoe Bay field, in all phases of above ground arctic pipeline construction. Jerry has a Bachelor of Science (1979) from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He has worked as a commercial boatman in Grand Canyon National Park and many other locations throughout the Colorado Plateau providing geologic, natural and human history, ecologic, and archeological interpretation for the past 20 years. His many years as a river guide in Grand Canyon provide a unique perspective stemming from his first hand knowledge of river resources.

• (A) Marianne Crawford (Bureau of Reclamation) joined the Bureau of Reclamation in July 2009 as a biologist. Her principal duties include acting as a technical representative for projects funded by Reclamation in the Grand Canyon portion of the Colorado River Canyon and contributing to the TWG and AMWG processes. Prior to that, she worked seven years as an aquatic biologist for the Fish and Wildlife Service in the Utah Field Office. In that capacity she conducted Endangered Species Act consultations and associated actions. She also represented the Service on the SNWA groundwater withdrawal project in Nevada and Utah. She has served in other capacities throughout her career including at Utah State University, in private consulting and the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources. Marianne grew up in Salt Lake City. She obtained a Bachelors and Masters Degree at Utah State University and lived in Logan, Utah for many years before returning to Salt Lake to pursue her professional career.

• (A) Kevin Dahl (Grand Canyon Trust) is the Arizona Program Manager for National Parks Conservation Association where he works on issues concerning the Arizona 25 units of the National Park Service, including such well-known parks as Grand Canyon and Saguaro. Prior to NPCA, Kevin was executive director of Native Seeds/SEARCH, a regional group that works to preserve the genetic diversity of Southwestern Native American crops. He was also executive director of the Tucson Audubon Society, and Natural Resources Superintendent for Pima County’s Parks and Recreation Department. An alumnus of both the University of Arizona and Arizona State University, his interest in plants led him to obtain his degree in ethnobotany from Prescott College. Kevin is author of Wild Plants of the Sonoran Desert, published by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and Native Harvest: Authentic Southwestern Gardening, published by the Western National Parks Association.

• (M) Kurt Dongoske (Pueblo of Zuni) is currently the Acting Director for the Zuni Heritage and Historic Preservation Office and the Principal Investigator for the Zuni Cultural Resource Enterprise. Kurt has 17 years of experience with the resource issues associated with the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program. From 1991 to 1997, he represented the Hopi Tribe as a cooperating agency in the development of the Glen Canyon Dam Environmental Impact Statement. He continued to represent the Hopi Tribe during the transition into the Adaptive Management Program and for six years was the Hopi Tribe’s TWG representative and their AMWG alternate. He has also served as the TWG Chair for five years (2001-2003; 2005-2008), during which time he successfully directed and facilitated the Technical Work Group’s debates over complex resource issues and helped them develop consensus recommendations to the AMWG. He has extensive knowledge of the resource issues that are part of the Adaptive Management Program and has positively contributed to this program. Kurt holds a Master’s Degree in anthropology from the University of Arizona and has over 30 years experience as a professional archaeologist. He has spent the last twenty years working closely with Native Americans to integrate their traditional concerns and perspectives into the narratives of the past generated by archaeologists. In 2000, he was recognized with a Presidential Recognition Award from the Society for American Archaeology for his work in improving relationships between Native Americans and archaeologists.

• (A) Craig Ellsworth (Western Area Power Administration) has more than 15 years experience as a biologist researching and implementing solutions to aid in the restoration and preservation of aquatic ecosystems in the Intermountain West. While taking undergraduate classes at Brigham Young University, he was employed by the State of Utah conducting studies and surveys for June sucker (Chasmistes liorus), Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris), and least chub (Iotichthys phlegethontis)in central Utah. He continued on at Brigham Young University for a master’s degree analyzing the effects of channelization and subsequent restoration ofthe Provo River in the Heber Valley on the local fish community. Following graduate school, he accepted a position at SWCA Environmental Consultants as a resource specialist for several projects including the development of the Vernal BLM Resource Management Plan, Snake River BLM Fire Plan, and the Loon Mountain Ski Resort Expansion EIS. He also assisted with several projects that were instrumental in laying the groundwork for the June Sucker Recovery Program including preparing the Program Document for the June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program, the development of EAs for Federal Agency Participation in the June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program and for the Property Transfer and Improvements of Red Butte Reservoir to Establish a June Sucker Refugia, and a non-native fish control feasibility study for Utah Lake. He also assisted on several other projects and planning efforts including preparing and reviewing regulatory permits and wildlife monitoring along new highway, pipeline, and transmission right-of-ways. He had the opportunity to work on several projects on the Colorado and Yampa Rivers involving humpback chub, bonytail, Colorado pikeminnow, and razorback sucker recovery. In 2004, he went to work for the U.S. Geological Service in Klamath Falls working on several Lost River sucker (Deltistes luxatus) and shortnose sucker (Chasmistes brevirostris) recovery and monitoring projects. His primary duties included managing a research project analyzing the effects of dam removal on the spawning distributions of these endangered fish in the Sprague River. In 2011, he went to work for Western Area Power Administration assisting with endangered fish recovery efforts in the Colorado River basin.

• (A) Evelyn Erlandsen (State of Arizona) is an Environmental Planner for the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) with the Colorado River Management Section. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Resources from Arizona State University. In her capacity with ADWR, Evelyn has also worked in managing the state’s Recharge Program, led the establishment of local drought impact groups to fulfill requirements in the Governor’s Drought Plan, and she also served as a technical reviewer in the riparian restoration program for the Arizona Water Protection Fund. In her role at the Arizona Game and Fish Department, she developed the Arizona Wildlife Linkages Program with AGFD research biologists to identify at-risk wildlife corridors for inclusion in regional planning; and recently worked with the Bureau of Reclamation on the technical review of restoration projects in restoring and protecting native fisheries in the Sacramento-Delta region.

• (A) Lesley Fitzpatrick (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) has been with the USFWS Arizona Ecological Service’s Office since 1979 working on a variety of resource issues. Since 1992, Ms. Fitzpatrick has focused on issues relating to the Colorado River and its native fish (bonytail and razorback sucker) including involvement in the designation of critical habitat for the four big river fish species and the development of the Lower Colorado River Multi-species Conservation Plan. She is now our office lead for the Long Term Experimental and Management Plan for Glen Canyon Dam Operations environmental impact statement and is our office lead for the humpback chub. She graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1972 with a B.S. in Zoology and received her Master’s Degree in Fishery Science in 1976 from the University of Arizona.

• (M) Paul Harms (State of New Mexico) has been a staff engineer on staff of the Colorado River Bureau of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission since 2007, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Prior to that, he worked in Las Cruces for the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer. Paul has a Master of Science degree in civil and environmental engineering from Utah State University.

• (M) Christopher “Chris” Harris (State of California) is currently the Deputy Director of the Colorado River Board of California, and has been with the Board since August 2000. Chris is involved in most of the Board’s major programs and activities associated with protecting and managing California’s rights and interests in its Colorado River water and hydropower supplies. Some of the major programs that Chris is currently involved in include implementation of the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program, participation in Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program, and the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program. Prior to joining the Board’s staff, Chris spent nearly 15 years working for the Arizona Department of Water Resources, the last six in the Department’s Office of Colorado River Management. Chris also worked for the federal Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service.

• (M) Amy Heuslein (Bureau of Indian Affairs) serves as an Environmental Protection Specialist and branch chief in Environmental Quality Services in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated with a B.S. in Biology in 1980 from Stephens College. She has worked for Bureau of Land Management off and on from 1978 to 1986. She has experience in National Environmental Policy Act compliance, Endangered Species Act, Historic Preservation Act, Clean Water Act, wildlife management, oil and gas development, coal development and reclamation, and solid and hazardous waste issues for projects on Indian and/or public lands.

• (M) Chris Hughes (Glen Canyon National Recreation Area) currently serves as the Chief of Science and Resource Management at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Rainbow Bridge National Monument. He has worked in resource management at several other NPS units including the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park and has a combined 9 years of public and private sector experience. Prior to working with the National Park Service (NPS), Chris worked in the private sector as an environmental consultant specializing in project management, bio-inventories, and wetland restoration. He attended Auburn University for his Bachelor’s Degree in communications and received a Master’s Degree in biogeography and a graduate level certificate in natural resource management from Georgia State University.
• (A) Loretta Jackson-Kelly (Hualapai Tribe). As the Program Manager for the Department of Cultural Resources, Loretta is responsible for managing cultural resource issues for the tribe, reviews technical reports on various projects, is a technical report writer for environmental reviews, acts as the Principal Investigator for various ethnographic studies, and serves as Liaison in Section 106 Process per NHPA for the tribe. She has worked for the Hualapai Tribe since 1991. She is currently a part-time student working on a B.A. in Liberal Studies.
• (A) Leslie James (Colorado River Energy Distributors Association) became Executive Director of CREDA in June 1998. Prior to that, she was a CREDA Board member representing the Salt River Project and worked at SRP for 20 years. She represents CREDA on the AMWG, the American Public Power Association Advisory Committee, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association National Preference Customer Committee, and the National Water Resources Association Energy Issues Task Force Co-Chair. She has a Dual B.S. in Paralegal and Political Science from Northern Arizona University, cum laude. Civic: Appointed by Arizona Governor as member of the Maricopa County Trial Court Appointment Commission (commission that interviews and recommends candidates for Superior Court judgeships).

Sam Jansen (Grand Canyon River Guides) began his Grand Canyon career as a Hydrologic Technician for the U.S. Geological Survey in 1990. During the Glen Canyon Environmental Study (GCES), from 1992 to 1996, he worked as a Hydrologist on sediment transport and other projects in the Canyon. He became a Grand Canyon river guide in 1993 and started working full seasons, April through October, in 1996. Sam has come to know the twists and turns of the Colorado River, and its beaches and side canyons, very well. He has also spent a part of each summer guiding on wilderness rivers in Alaska, and has boated a variety of rivers in Washington, Idaho, California and Arizona. Sam is a past president and board member of Grand Canyon River Guides, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the Grand Canyon and helping people have the best possible river experience. Sam has filled the off-river seasons with work as a computer programmer, database developer, and ski patroller. He graduated from the Zaki Gordon Institute for Independent Filmmaking in 2006 and is currently a documentary filmmaker specializing in movies that explore the spaces where the natural world meets human history and politics. Sam studied Creative Writing and Geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona, and received a bachelor of science degree in Geosciences from the University of Arizona.

• (M) Tony Joe (Navajo Nation) is the Program Manager for the Traditional Cultural Program for the Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Department in Window Rock, Arizona. He consults and collaborates with governmental agencies (NPS, BLM) and museums on NAGPRA and Section 106 related issues outside Navajo Nation boundaries. He is involved with protecting cultural resources of the Navajo Nation, curating Navajo ceremonial objects of cultural patrimony, collaborates with traditional elders on cultural issues, and repatriation of ceremonial objects from museums. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology with an American History Emphasis from Northern Arizona University in 1998. He received his Master of Arts in Anthropology, Environmental Apology, from the Northern Arizona University in 2003.

• (M) Vineetha Kartha (State of Arizona) is an Environmental Planner for the Arizona Department of Water Resources with the Colorado River Management Section. She holds a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning degree from the Arizona State University and a Master of Geology degree from the University of Bombay. Kartha has worked in the capacity of environmental planner for a private engineering firm and acted as the principal long range planner for the City of Surprise. She is a member of the American Planning Association and frequently serves as a speaker at the Arizona Planning Association conferences.

• (M) Robert King (State of Utah) has a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Brigham Young University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Utah and is the Chief of the Interstate Streams section of the Utah Division of Water Resources. Mr. King currently serves as a member on the Glen Canyon Dam Technical Work Group and also serves as an alternate for Utah with the: Upper Colorado River Commission, the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum, the Department of Interior Colorado River Working Group, and the Upper Colorado River Basin Endangered Fishes Recovery Program.

• (M) Glen Knowles (Bureau of Reclamation) transferred to the Upper Colorado Regional Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in May 2010 and assumed the position of Chief of the Adaptive Management Group. Prior to that he served as a fish and wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Arizona Ecological Services Office, in Phoenix, Arizona, where he has held this position since 2001. Previously he was a research associate at Arizona State University where he researched the life history and conservation biology of native fish of the southwest United States. Later, Glen worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on conservation of southern California’s aquatic fauna at the Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office. He is a member of the Desert Fishes Council, Society of Icthyologists and Herpetologists, and the Society for Conservation Biology. Glen has a B.S. in Environmental Resources from Arizona State University in 1993, and an M.S. in Zoology from Arizona State University in 1998.

• (M) Edward “Ted” Kowalski (State of Colorado) is currently the Chief of the Interstate and Federal Section of the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB). In that position he provides technical and legal assistance to the CWCB regarding negotiations and strategies related to the law of the Colorado River, Endangered Species Act, Recovery Program issues, and other program areas of the Interstate and Federal Section. Prior to that, Ted served as the program manager for the same section. From February 2000 until August 2004 he was a legal protection specialist with the Board. From September 1995 to January 2000 he served as Assistant Attorney General in the Water Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General, Natural Resources Section. He has a B.A. in Political Science/Government from Cornell University and a J.D. and Certificate in Natural Resources and Environmental Policy from the University of Colorado School of Law.

(M) Nikolai Lash (Grand Canyon Trust). The Grand Canyon Trust is a regional environmental organization which conserves the natural and cultural resources of the Colorado Plateau of Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado. Nikolai joined the Grand Canyon Trust in November 1997. He has a BA in liberal studies from St. John's College and a JD from Stanford Law School. His project emphasis is water, including greater Grand Canyon regional water work and restoring health to the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. (A) Andy Makinster. (A) Gerald “Jerry” Myers (Federation of Fly Fishers) is currently the Vice President of the White Mountain Fly Fishing Club in Pinetop, Arizona. As a member of the board for this organization, he is involved in a number of projects and programs to teach fishing, serve the community, and provide expertise in the development of new programs. He has worked on conservation programs to improve habitat and to clean streams and lakes. He worked with the Arizona Game and Fish and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to re-introduce the Arizona Native Apache Trout. He holds a membership Desert Fly Casters, and Fly Fishers and Trout Unlimited. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering with a major in semiconductor theory.

• (M/A) Don Ostler (Upper Colorado River Commission) is the Executive Director and Secretary for the Upper Colorado River Commission which was created by Federal Compact to represent the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The Commission is responsible to administer appropriate Federal laws respecting the uses and deliveries of the water of the Upper Basin of the Colorado River. Don worked as an engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado, Utah and Idaho. He served for 18 years in an appointed position as the Director of the Utah Division of Water Quality and Executive Secretary to the Utah Water Quality Board. He was responsible for protection of the quality of all surface water and ground water within the state of Utah. He was involved in funding and constructing wastewater projects as well as regulating and permitting municipalities and industries that discharged pollutants to the water. Don also serves as an alternate for the Interstate Stream Commission of New Mexico and the State Engineer’s Office in Wyoming.

• (M) McClain Peterson (State of Nevada) served as a Natural Resource Analyst with the Colorado River Commission of Nevada from 2001 to March 2008. His principal duties included managing and maintaining the State’s Colorado River water use accounting and representing Nevada on both intrastate and interstate matters related to the Colorado River. He was involved in several research projects as an analyst, most notably in the area of interstate seawater desalination agreements and exchanges. In March 2008 he was promoted to Manager of the newly created Natural Resources Group. In this capacity he manages a group of professionals dealing with the Commission’s water and environmental responsibilities. Prior to joining the Commission, Mr. Peterson was a graduate intern for the Las Vegas Wash Coordination Team. He also worked at the University of Reno as a research technician studying protein transport within the endoplasmic reticulum of eukaryotic cells. McClain grew up in Las Vegas and attended the University of Nevada Reno and graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Economics. He received an M.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. In addition, Mr. Peterson holds a certification in public management from the Nevada Certified Public Manager’s Program.

• (A) Randy Seaholm (State of Colorado) received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Watershed Management from Colorado State University in 1971. He started his career by working as a Water Resource Engineer with the Colorado Division of Water Resources in 1973. He then went on to work as a Senior Water Resource Specialist with the Colorado Water Conservation Board in 1977. In 1983, he transferred to the Hydrologic and Interstate Streams Investigations Section and in October 1977 he became chief of the Water Supply Protection Section and has been in that position ever since.
• (M) John Shields (State of Wyoming) has been Interstate Streams Engineer for the Wyoming State Engineer's Office since January 1984, and assists the State Engineer in matters involving Wyoming's water relationships with other states and the Federal Government. Those relations concern water use, administration and development of Wyoming's water resources. He earned Bachelor's and Masters Degrees in Agriculture Engineering from the University of Wyoming in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He is primarily involved with Colorado and Platte River Basin issues and activities in his work for the State Engineer. As a "headwaters" state, Wyoming is vitally interested in and necessarily gets involved with many issues and water resource activities occurring downstream. Wyoming is party to seven of the 22 interstate river compacts that presently divide the waters of western rivers in the United States. Wyoming is also a party to two United State Supreme decrees governing water allocations. John acts as or assists Wyoming's State Engineer on a number of interstate work groups and committees. He is chairman of the Engineering Committee to the Upper Colorado River Commission and serves as the State of Wyoming's member on the Colorado River Operations Management Work Group and the Technical Work Group to the Glen Canyon Adaptive Management Program. He is Wyoming's representative on the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum Work Group. He is also a member of the Resolutions and Membership Committees for the Colorado River Water Users Association. He is Treasurer for the Wyoming Water Association.
• (M) William “Bill Stewart” (Arizona Game and Fish Deparment) works as Wildlife Specialist II with the Arizona Game and Fish Department in Phoenix, Arizona. His duties involve supervision and employee development, designing study plans, implementing studies, collecting and analyzing data, technical and trip reporting, presenting findings at internal and external meetings, budget review and reporting, and purchasing equipment. He served as the lead project biological on the Alga project, the Horseshoe-Bartlett HCP Long Term Monitoring Study, and the Lake Pleasant Striped Bass project. Prior to that, he worked as a laboratory technician with CTC in Phoenix, a fisheries technician with Idaho Fish and Game in Nampa, Idaho, and a fisheries crew leader with the U.S. Forest Service in Fairfield, Idaho. He received his B.S. in Biology from Pacific Lutheran University in May 2001 and his M.S. in Computational Biology from Arizona State University in May 2005. He also received a Public Manager Certification from Arizona State University in February 2010.

• (M) Larry Stevens (Grand Canyon Wildlands Council) earned his B.A. in Biology and Fine Arts from Prescott College in 1974, his M.S. in Biology from Northern Arizona University in 1985, and his Ph.D. in Zoology from NAU in 1989. He has published many peer-reviewed publications and has worked as an ecologist with the Grand Canyon National Park Resources Management and Planning Division (1988-94), an adjunct faculty member with the Department of Biological Sciences (1990-present), an ecologist with the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (1998-99), an associate editor with the Western North American Naturalist (1999-present), and served on the Board of Trustees with the Museum of Northern Arizona (2003-present). He is currently a consulting ecologist with Stevens Ecological Consulting.

• LeAnn Skrzynski (Southern Paiute Consortium) has served as Environmental Program Director for the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians since 2003 under an EPA grant, developing and administering policy for the tribe, coordinating community environmental education, while overseeing special projects and several resource protection programs. The broad intersection between tribal cultural and environmental issues often leads to her participation in cultural matters, as well. LeAnn matriculated at Northern Arizona University, receiving summa cum laude honors in environmental science with a minor in biology. She was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi honor society. Among other federal service, she worked for 4 years with the former Glen Canyon Environmental Studies (now known as the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center) under the Bureau of Reclamation. While serving in this capacity, she gained familiarity with local tribal issues and the broad spectrum of research undertaken in studying the Colorado River ecosystem in relation to the operations of Glen Canyon Dam. This background is instrumental in interpreting scientific perspectives while protecting tribal cultural values at the direction of the Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians on the Colorado Plateau.

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• (A) Meghan Trubee (Grand Canyon Trust) is the Senior Campaign Manager for National Parks Conservation Association’s Colorado River Program. Her focus is on the nine national park units within the Colorado River basin which encompasses seven of the great western States. Prior to NPCA, Meghan served as the River Campaign Director for the San Juan Citizens Alliance in Durango, Colorado where she focused on rivers throughout the southwestern portion of Colorado and was the environmental representative on the State of Colorado Southwest Basin Roundtable. She has a diverse perspective in resource management and stakeholder processes. Her experiences range from Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa, the Department of Public Works in St. Helena, California, construction and engineering experience on the Big Dig in Boston, MA, to Cooperative Extension in Tucson, Arizona where she helped organize education and outreach around local watershed health issues around the state. She is a California Water Education Foundation Water Leader alumna and a current board member for the Colorado Watershed Assembly. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Resources Management and Environmental Policy from Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA and a Master of Science degree in Natural Resource Management from the University of Arizona in Tucson with a thesis focused on an analysis of water conflict in interstate river basins of the southwest (including the Rio Grande, Pecos River, and Costilla Creek).

• (M) Michael Yeatts (Hopi Tribe) has a Master’s degree in archaeology and has been involved in Southwestern archaeology since 1985. His employment with the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office began in 1991, focusing on the Hopi Tribe's involvement in the Grand Canyon Dam EIS. During his tenure, he has been involved in development and implementation of the Hopi Tribe's ethnographic, archaeological, biological and monitoring research. He was a representative of the Hopi Tribe on the writing team for the Glen Canyon Dam EIS and has been involved in the Adaptive Management Program (AMP) since its inception. He currently serves as the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Work Group alternate for the Hopi Tribe and also as the member on the Glen Canyon Dam Technical Work Group representing the Hopi Tribe.

• (M) Kirk Young (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) graduated from Arizona State University with a BS is Zoology/Fisheries Management in 1985. He has over 25 years in aquatics management working for the state of Arizona (ASU and Arizona Game and Fish Department) ranging from native fish biologist, statewide native fish program manager, habitat specialist, and most recently chief of fisheries. He was recently hired by USFWS as the supervisory biologist for the Flagstaff and Parker Fish and Wildlife Conservation Offices.