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Board of Directors
 

Last updated 11/18/08

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
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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)
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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
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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
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DANIEL PLATT
Special Counsel
Duncan, Ostrander & Dingess, P.C.
Denver, CO 80237

Water law practice.

J.D., University of Denver College of Law, 1997
BA, English, University of Colorado, 1980

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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
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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.

B.A. Dartmouth College
JD, University of California at Los Angeles
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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.

B.A. Sc. University of Toronto, Geological Engineering, 1977
M.A. Sc. University of Toronto, Geotechnical Engineering, 1980

Registered Professional Engineer: Colorado

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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). 

Member, Aspen Valley Land Trust Stewardship Council; Board member, Windstar Land Conservancy; Member, Land Trust Alliance National Land Trust Council; Member Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund Open Space Stakeholders Working Group; Appointed member, Colorado Governor’s Commission on Saving Open Spaces, Farms & Ranches.

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

Mr. Manzagol was appointed by the County of San Mateo, California, Board of Supervisors to be a technical liaison between the County, the Federal Highway Administration, and Caltrans. He is also on the Board of Directors for TOP, Inc (Ouray County, Colorado), a non-profit corporation whose focus is to acquire public and private lands for the purpose of open space preservation and the development of outdoor educational facilities. He is also president of the board for the Dallas Ditch Company and advisor to the Board for the western Colorado Valley Youth Symphony.

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

Natural resources law practice.
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PAUL PHILLIPS
Holland and Hart
Denver, CO 80202

Natural resources law practice.
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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)
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