PATRICK WILLITS
Executive Director
Ridgway, CO 81432
970-626-3236

Mayor, Town of Ridgway. Former Southwest Colorado Program Manager for The Nature Conservancy (1990-1998); former Board member, Black Canyon Regional Land Trust (1999-2001), former Director of Nordic Skiing, Eldora Mountain Resort (1985-1991); former Nederland Community Education Coordinator, Boulder Valley School District (1981-1985).

BA, Political Science and Public Administration, San Diego State University, 1975

Board of Directors

TLR Board Chair:

GEOFFREY HOYL
Hoyl Companies, Inc.
Rollinsville, CO  80474 

Chairman, ClickBank.com; Co-chairman and Principal Advisor, Executive Advisors Group Limited; Chairman and CEO, Hoyl Companies, Inc.

Former President, CEO & Executive Director, Consolidated Nevada Goldfields Corporation (1993 - 1997); former President, Director, Palomar Capital Corporation (1985-1993); former President, A.T. Massey Coal Terminal Corporation (1980 - 1985); former President, Sun Coal Company (1976-1980); former Vice President, Coal Fuels Corporation (1973-1976); former Mine and Mill Foreman, Coronado Silver Corporation (1965-1973)

DON KELLOGG
Retired Automotive Engineer
Ridgway, CO  81432

Board of Directors, Ridgway Railroad Museum, Ridgway, CO (2008 to present); Technical Project Manager for Chassis Controls, Bosch Automotive, Farmington Hills, MI (2002 to 2007 Retired); Staff Project Engineer; Program Manager for Chassis Controls, General Motors Corp, Detroit, MI (1968 to 2002 Retired).

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1972

APRIL MONTGOMERY
April Montgomery Consulting, LLC
Norwood, CO  81423

Programs Director for the Telluride Foundation (2005 to present); Nonprofit Consultant and Grant Writer (2002 to present); Former Director, San Miguel County Open Space & Recreation Department (2000); former Interim Planning Director San Miguel County Planning Department (1999-2000); former Associate Planner, San Miguel County Planning Department (1991-1999); Judicial Clerkship, Colorado Supreme Court (1989-1990).

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1989
BA, American Government, University of Virginia, 1985

STEVE SMITH
Associate Regional Director
The Wilderness Society 
Glenwood Springs, CO 81601

Environmental policy consultant.

Former Associate Southwest Regional Director, for the Sierra Club (2001-2004); Senior Congressional Assistant to Congressman David Skaggs, Colorado (1987-1998); former Logistics Manager for the Colorado Outward Bound School (1984-1987); former Director, University of Colorado Environmental Center (1981-1984).

BA, Environmental Studies, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1975

Advisors to the Board

THOMAS A. BLOOMFIELD
Attorney at Law
Gallagher & Gallagher
Boulder, CO 80305

Tom Bloomfield is a partner at Gallagher & Gallagher where he represents clients on environmental and land use litigation and counseling matters. Prior to joining Gallagher & Gallagher, Mr. Bloomfield served for seven years as an Assistant Regional Counsel at the US Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco, where he resolved major aspects of some of the most significant and high profile cases in the region.  Mr. Bloomfield served as the principal architect and lead federal negotiator for the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund settlement (Redding, CA), and was selected as a California Lawyer of the Year in 2000 by California Lawyer Magazine.

Prior to joining EPA, Mr. Bloomfield was an associate at the San Francisco office of Morrison & Foerster.  In that capacity, he successfully represented clients on environmental and land use matters, including CERCLA, RCRA, the Clean Air Act, NEPA and the state analogs to those statutes.

BA Dartmouth College
JD, University of California at Los Angeles

MAX H. DODSON
RETIRED Assistant Regional Administrator
U.S. EPA Region 8
Denver, CO

Max Dodson served with the U.S. EPA 1971-2007, in several positions administering all federal environmental statutes.  He was in Senior Executive Service of the U.S. EPA for 25 years, five of which were as director of the U.S. EPA’s Montana operations office.

Max is currently active in a variety of volunteer projects, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Sand Creek Regional Greenway Partnership, and the Clear Creek Watershed Foundation. 

Retired Captain, U.S. Naval Reserve.

BA  San Francisco State University, 1965
MA  Environmental Conservation; University of Colorado, Boulder, 1971
MA  Public Administration; University of Colorado, Boulder, 1976

DAVID J. FOLKES, P.E.
President, EnviroGroup Limited
Centennial, CO 80112

David Folkes has performed environmental site assessments at a wide variety of industrial, commercial, and natural resource sites across the country. He has managed groundwater and soil investigation and remediation projects at numerous sites, including several mining, smelting, and metals refining sites; major petroleum refinery sites; and some of the largest groundwater solvent plumes in the country. He is skilled in the forensic evaluation of the sources and causes of metals contamination in soils; solvent contamination in groundwater; and investigation and mitigation of indoor air impacts due to groundwater contamination. He has also served as an expert witness on several soil and groundwater contamination cases in both state and federal court.

BA Sc. University of Toronto, Geological Engineering, 1977
MA Sc. University of Toronto, Geotechnical Engineering, 1980

Registered Professional Engineer: Colorado

STEPHEN J. FOSTER, Ph.D.
President, Terra Mentis Environmental Consulting
Boulder, CO 80301

Stephen Foster has prepared human health and environmental risk assessments for a wide variety of projects across the country, and internationally. These projects included hazardous waste cleanup projects under Superfund, RCRA, and State led voluntary remediation programs.  It has included incineration projects for trash-to-energy, hazardous and medical waste incineration, and planning projects for pipelines, and power plants.  He has also managed risk-based site investigations at mine waste sites.  Stephen has conducted risk assessments at several mining, smelting, and metals waste sites; major petroleum refinery sites; and groundwater solvent plumes across the country.  He has also served as an expert witness on several groundwater vapor intrusion contamination cases in state court.

B.Sc. University of Sussex, England, Chemistry, 1978
D.I.C. (M.Sc.) Imperial College, London, England, 1980
Ph.D.  Imperial College, London, England 1981
Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin, 1981-84
Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1984-86

JEFFREY A. KODISH
Attorney-at-Law
Boulder, CO 80302

Environmental attorney who has represented government entities and citizens groups and who has experience in class action and toxic tort litigation.

J.D., University of Oregon School of Law. 1990

BA, Political Science and Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado 1986

TIM MANZAGOL
Applied Earth Sciences Consultants
Offices: Woodside, CA 94062 & Ridgway, CO 81432

Tim Manzagol has 35 years of professional experience as a geologist, engineering geologist and downhole wireline geophysicist. He has owned and operated Applied Earth Sciences Consultants, a geologic and geotechnical engineering firm, since 1982. His experience includes a broad range of activities from forensic research, expert witness, site investigations and associated project management, and has worked throughout most of the western states, Texas, Alaska and Michigan. He has participated in small to large private and commercial projects, plus government sites and defense projects. Projects have been associated with corridor routing, mass transit systems, hazardous waste sites, ground water studies, dams and reservoirs, tunneling, power plant siting (conventional fossil, hydropower and nuclear) and large private estates. Over the past fifteen years his focus has been on West Coast projects that evaluate natural and human created hazards relative to current and/or planned future land use including land restoration.

BS Geology, Michigan Technological University, 1973

Post graduate west coast geology and soil engineering courses, Stanford University, 1973-74

Registered Geologist No. 3560, CA (1978)
Certified Engineering Geologist, No. 1040, CA (1978)
Certified Professional Geologist, No. 6576 (1982)

ZACH C. MILLER
Davis, Graham and Stubbs, LLP
Denver, CO 80202

Natural resources law practice.

PAUL PHILLIPS
Holland and Hart
Denver, CO 80202

Natural resources law practice.

DAVID L. SCOTT
TIC- The Industrial Company
Steamboat Springs, CO 80477

David Scott has been with TIC, a $2.3 billion per year, heavy industrial general contractor, for 25 years. As Senior Vice President Corporate Business Development, he is responsible for marketing, sales and business development, with particular expertise in negotiation of large turnkey, engineer/procure/construct (EPC) contracts.

Mr. Scott previously served as Assistant to the Vice President, A.T. Massey Coal Company (1980-1981); Mine Superintendent, Sun Coal Company (1978-1980); Mine Engineer, The Pittsburg and Midway Coal Company (1977); Mine Foreman, US Steel Corporation (1972-1976).

BS Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines (1972)

TLR Real Estate Attorney:

JANE ELLEN HAMILTON
Attorney at Law
Ridgway, CO 81432

Real estate and land use attorney; Land conservation consultant.

Former Executive Director, Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts (1999-2001); former Director, Pitkin County Open Space and Trails Program, Aspen, Colorado (1994-1998); private practice of real estate law, Denver and Aspen, Colorado (1984 -1994). 

J.D., University of Texas, 1984
BA, Political Science, University of Texas, 1980

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