Glen Canyon Institute

Rich founded Glen Canyon Institute in 1996, with the help of legendary conservationist David Brower. Rich first visited Glen Canyon as a young boy scout and developed a great love for the canyons that would later be destroyed by the floodwaters of Lake Powell reservoir. For the past 15 years, he has dedicated his life to restoring the natural health and beauty of Glen Canyon and the Colorado River. He is a physician and faculty member at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Department of Physics, and the founder and President of Utah Wilderness Medicine. He also serves as vice chairman of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and is the President of Riverbound Adventures, an educational river-running company. His love for medicine and the environment has taken him around the world to places such as Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and Paraguay. He enjoys hiking, running, spending time with friends and family, and especially, running the white-waters of the Colorado River. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Barbara is a Professor of Geography at Portland State University in Oregon. Her interests lie in biogeography, and cultural ecology in the regions of High Asia, Nepal and the Western United States. She also has a strong interest in mountains, wildland resource conservation and policy, and the environmental movement. She is the editor of the journal Himalaya, which seeks to promote understanding and appreciation of the region; she is also the author of Sherpa of Khumbu: People, Livestock, and Landscape. She serves on the board of Earth Island Institute. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Scott grew up in Idaho and Utah, where he had the opportunity to run rivers, chase fish and climb mountains from an early age. Scott graduated from the University of Utah in 2003 and after working on several political and environmental campaigns in Salt Lake City, went to work for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, where he now serves as the Climate Change Program Director. He has helped to bring down a 90-year old dam on the Bear River, negotiate an agreement to construct a fish ladder over a dam on the Henry's Fork of the Snake, and has been named a Conservation Hero by Field and Stream Magazine for protecting Yellowstone cutthroat trout from open pit phosphate mining in southeast Idaho. He lives in Bozeman, Montana with his wife Celia, and their two children, Henry and Ruby.

Wade is a landscape designer, historian, and writer. He has designed gardens all over California, and in Hawaii and New York. He is the author of a social history of gardens in America, American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to our Back Yards, What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are (HarperCollins, 2011), and has written on the environment, landscape, urbanism, and the arts for The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Los Angeles Times, Outside and other publications. He has a Ph.D. in American history and teaches urbanism and environmental policy at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Lea is Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, San Diego. He has served as the founding Provost of Warren College, Founding Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering, and coordinator of the Graduate Program in Materials Science. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is past president of the board of trustees, San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, and a former board member of Burnham Cancer Research Institute. He is currently a board member of the San Diego River Park Foundation and the Athenaeum Music and Art Library. He lives in La Jolla, California.

Ed is Managing Attorney in the Utah Office of Navajo Nation Legal Services. He worked nine years as a Montana Water Master, judging water rights disputes, and twelve years with David Brower as a field representative for Friends of the Earth. He wrote Montana's Initiative 84, forbidding uranium mill tailings and most other radioactive waste; it passed in 1980 and is still the law. He served for four years as a member of the Sierra Club national board of directors. He lives in Bluff, Utah.

Rick is President and Co-Founder of RBI Strategies and Research in Denver, Colorado. He has served as campaign chair of the Howard Dean presidential campaign, senior consultant for the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign, national field director for two other presidential campaigns, and as a consultant guiding campaign staffs in numerous national, state, and local campaigns. He is a past president of the International Association of Political Consultants and a winner of the "Pollie" Award as International Consultant of the Year. He recently received the "Award of Achievement" from the Gleitsman Foundation, "in recognition of commitment and leadership initiating social change." Rick is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver’s Korbel School of International Studies. He lives in Denver, Colorado.