Richard Ingebretsen, M.D., Ph.D. (President) founded Glen Canyon Institute in 1996, with the help of legendary conservationist David Brower. Since visiting Glen Canyon as a young Boy Scout before Lake Powell reservoir had filled, he has dedicated himself 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 serves on the board of Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Rick Ridder is President and Co-Founder of RBI Strategies and Research in Denver, Colorado. As the National Campaign Manager for the Howard Dean presidential campaign, as a senior consultant for four presidential campaigns (including both Clinton/Gore campaigns) and as the National Field Director for two other presidential bids. He has consulted for numerous U.S. Congressional, gubernatorial, and state and local initiative campaigns. Internationally, his work in 20 countries includes advising the successful campaigns of four heads of state. 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. Recently, he was recognized with the "Award of Achievement" from the Gleitsman Foundation, "in recognition of commitment and leadership initiating social change." He has appeared on all major US networks, the BBC, and a number of other foreign broadcast networks and his written works have appeared in "Salon.com," "Campaigns and Elections," and "Alternet." In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver's Korbel School of International Studies. Prior to political consulting, he was an independent radio and television producer whose programming aired on major networks. He lives in Denver, Colorado.

Barbara Brower, Ph.D. is a Professor of Geography at Portland State University in Oregon. Her interests lie in biogeography, 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 and 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 Christensen grew up in Idaho and Utah, where he had the opportunity to run rivers, chase fish and climb mountains from an early age. After working on several political and environmental campaigns in Salt Lake City, Scott graduated from the University of Utah in 2003 and went to work for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, where he serves as Private Lands Stewardship 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 kids, Henry and Ruby.

Ed Dobson, J.D., 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, passed in 1980 and still the law. He served four years as a member of the Sierra Club national board of directors. He lives in Bluff, Utah.

Wade Graham, Ph.D., is an environmental writer and historian who has written for The New Yorker, Harper's, The Los Angeles Times, Outside and other publications. He is editor of Hidden Passage: The Journal of Glen Canyon Institute. His book on the environmental history of Hawaii, "Braided Waters: Environment, Economy and Community in Molokai, Hawaii" is forthcoming from the University of Hawaii Press. He is currently working on a book for HarperCollins publishers entitled American Eden: From The Thirteen Colonies to the Present, What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

M. Lea Rudee, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, San Diego. After joining the faculty at UCSD in 1974, he 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 currently is a board member or the San Diego River Park Foundation and the Athenaeum Music and Art Library. He lives in La Jolla, California.

Daniel Beard, Ph.D. A native of Bellingham, Washington, Dan earned a B.A. degree from Western Washington University (1965), and both his M.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1973) from the University of Washington. Former Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation from 1993 to 1995. Former Staff Director for the Committee on Natural Resources of the U.S. House of Representatives. He served as National Audubon Society's Senior Vice President of Public Policy after leaving Interior.

Ryan Brown is a native of central Utah. He is a senior copywriter position with McCann-Erickson in Salt Lake City. He has long been familiar with Glen Canyon and was taught to respect rivers early by his father, who told firsthand accounts of his river trip through Glen Canyon in 1963. He has served as a river guide on the Salmon River. However, today, he's traded in his Salmon River guides license, daily kayaking trips and spare time for three beautiful daughters.

Mikhail Davis is director of the Brower Fund at Earth Island Institute. He served as David Brower's personal assistant and project manager from April 1998 until Mr. Brower's Death in November 2000. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Agustin Garza was born and raised in Mexico City. He attended California College of Arts & Crafts, in San Francisco, and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, where he conducted studies in Fine Arts and Graphic Design. His work has been recognized internationally and forms part of the permanent collection of the National Library of Congress. A resident of Pasadena, he is President of Garza Group, a marketing communications firm serving clients in the Real Estate and Travel & Hospitality industries. His partial list of clients include The Los Angeles Convention & Visitor Bureau, Mexico City, The Mills Corporation, Catellus Corporation, Korn Ferry International, among others.

Margaret Hoffmann was raised on a ranch in northwest Colorado. From a very early age, she witnessed the encroachment of development on wildlands in Colorado and across the West. During and after college, she has worked with advocacy groups such as Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and in government to implement changes to protect what is left of the West's wildlands, particularly the heart of the Colorado Plateau. She has served on the board of Great Old Broads for Wilderness and other nonprofit organizations. She currently lives and works for a government relations firm in Portland, Oregon.

Nancy Jacques sleeps with bears and ravens, and in their behalf owns Raven's Eye Press. Author of The Heartcore Alternative, columnist, poet and artist, founding director of Friends of the Animas River and Colorado Rivers Alliance, teacher, mother, wife and lover of Earth Warriors. She lives in Durango, Colorado.

Katie Lee is a legendary writer-photographer-actress-singer-musician who has fought for a half-century to preserve wild and remote places in the Southwest. A native Arizonan, she began her professional career in 1948 as a stage and screen actress. She performed in motion pictures in Hollywood, had running parts on four major NBC radio shows; in the early 50s, and was a pioneer actress on national television. In the mid-50s she left Hollywood to spend 10 years "on the road" as a performer in coffeehouses and bistros throughout the US, Canada and Mexico, singing folksongs to her own guitar. She has released numerous albums of her music, three videos, and three books, Sandstone Seduction, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle and All My Rivers Are Gone (re-released as Glen Canyon Betrayed). Katie is one of a handful of women and men who knew the pristine Glen Canyon, making sixteen trips down the Colorado Rive and even named some of its side canyons. The construction of Glen Canyon Dam and drowning of Glen Canyon became the diving force that turned her into an environmental activist and agitator for draining Lake Powell reservoir and restoring Glen Canyon.

Dan McCool, Ph.D. is a professor at the University of Utah. His research and teaching focus on environmental policy, water resources management, American Indian policy, and policy theory. He is the author of Native Waters (University of Arizona Press, 2002) and Command of the Waters (University of California, 1987, re-issued University of Arizona, 1994), co-author of Staking Out the Terrain, second edition (SUNY Press, 1995), author/editor of Public Policy Theories, Models and Concepts (Prentice Hall, 1995), editor of Waters of Zion (University of Utah Press, 1995) and co-editor of Contested Landscape: The Politics of Wilderness in Utah and the West (University of Utah Press,1999). His journal publications include articles in Political Science Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, Publius, Policy Studies Journal, Policy Studies Review, and Journal of the Southwest. He has served as a consultant for the U. S. Justice Department, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy. He is currently working a book concerning dam removal and river restoration.

Don McDermott was described by David Brower at a GCI fund-raiser as an "eco-capitalist." He is known professionally for the considerable contributions he has made to the recycling industry as an advocate for sustainable development. Don is also a long-time friend and business advisor of the Glen Canyon Institute. He has lent his extensive financial and marketing expertise to many of our endeavors and promotional material. Don has a 30-year record of success in investments and venture capital, and is a "double-Domer" from Notre Dame, where he received his undergraduate degree in philosophy and master's in business. Don was also an All-American rugby player; but claims he is now making more rational decisions.

Tom Myers, Ph.D. is a hydrologic consultant working with conservation groups throughout the West. He is a former Bureau of Reclamation engineer and hydrologist in the Lower Colorado Region, with over 20 years of experience in the field. He also served as executive director of Great Basin Mine Watch and Conservation Director of Friends of Nevada Wilderness. Tom has extensive expertise with sediment, water resources, and groundwater issues in the Glen Canyon and Grand Canyon.

David Wegner is staff director for the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee. He has served as science director for Glen Canyon Institute and chief scientist at Ecosystem Management International, specializing in the study of the effects of climate change on large landscapes and species that could be imperiled by resulting habitat changes. Previously, he spent over 20 years within the Department of the Interior, including as lead scientist for the Bureau of Reclamation's environmental impact studies of Glen Canyon Dam. He has also been a private consultant and expert on western water, endangered species, river restoration, the application and use of science, and adaptive management. He serves as a board member of the River Policy Network of Japan, Good Dirt Radio, Animas River Task Force, La Plata County Water Commission, the Durango Parks and Open Space Strategic Planning Task Force, and Animas Riverkeeper. He lives in Washington, DC, and Durango, Colorado, near the Animas River.

Flake Wells has more than two decades of experience related to hydroelectric power development design and construction, having worked on major river projects throughout the U.S. from the Columbia to the Susquehanna. Subsequently, he transitioned from engineering design to finance and now works as a consulting analyst to various firms in the Midwest providing energy advisory services. He and his wife, LaDawn, live with their son in Indianapolis where they are involved with converting a civil war era church into a state-of-the art sound recording studio. Flake has a special interest in restoring the Glen Canyon to a free-flowing river and offers his services in the areas of hydrology, power operations and economics as we continue to examine feasible alternatives to current uses of the River.

Bill Wolverton is a lifelong hiker and backpacker, starting in the Sierra Nevada of his native state of California. He first visited the Escalante River canyons in 1979, and moved to the region in 1986. Since then, he has served as a backcountry ranger in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Zion National Park, and Canyonlands National Park. He has been a seasonal ranger in the Escalante district of Glen Canyon NRA since 2000, where he is working to eradicate invasive and non-native Russian olive and tamarisk from the area's canyons. Beginning in 1979, he has visited the Escalante River canyons every year except one. During these trips, he has systematically photo-documented the remote Glen Canyon backcountry. His early photos extensively recorded the status of Glen Canyon while flooded under Lake Powell reservoir at its highest water levels. In recent years, his photos have detailed the emergence and remarkable recovery of these canyons as reservoir levels have declined. This extraordinary photographic time series is providing a unique baseline for measuring the scope, degree, and rate of recovery that is occurring in the Glen Canyon ecosystem.

Alexander Woodruff
Barry Scholl
Bruce Hamilton
Dave Simon
Chris Franklin
Denise Boggs
Jack Schmidt
Martin Litton
Jeri Ledbetter
Ken Sleight
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