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Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form Fonn Revised May 2007 Grassland. His responsibilities include managing TNC's Fox Ranch on the Arickaree River, developing water sustainability projects in the Republican basin, negotiating voluntary conservation easements, and developing conservation opportzrnitiies associated with windpower development He holds a B.S in wildlife management and biology from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point and an M.B.A and an M,S. in Environmental Policy from the University ofMichigan. He has worked, for TNC since 2005. Tom Iseman: Tom is The Nature Conservancy's Water Program Manager in Colorado. He is based in Denver and supports TNC' °s water activities in Colorado and the American ,S'outhwest. He was a technical chair of the MV environment and recreation roundtable and continues to assist with the basin Non- Consznnptive Needs Assessments; he also sits on the South Platte Basin Ronndtable as an at-large representative. Tom grew up in Denver and has a BA from Princeton Universio, and an M,S' in freshwater ecology from the Universio, of Michigan. He worked for three years in the Office of Policy at the US Department of the Interior before retzrrning to Colorado to work-for TNC in 2001. Sieve Cann, Esq.: ,Sieve is a Water Attorney for the, Western Resource Office of The Nature Conservancy (Colorado Bar No. 24498). He provides legal szrpport for contracts drafting and negotiation, compliance with state permitting regnirements and general project consultation. Steve has been TNC's Regional Water Attorney for three years, and prior to that, represented Colorado Division of Water Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation, and Division of Wildlife as Assistant Attorney General, Natural Resources and Environment,S'ection from 1996 to 2005. John Sanderson, Ph.D.: John works for the Nature Conservancy of Colorado, where, as Senior Freshwater Conservation Ecologist, he works on a range of issues from ecoregional conservation planning to developing ecological flows in Colorado 's streams and rivers. He holds a BS in Engineering from Pardue University, an M,S' in Botany from the University of'Vermont, and a PhD. in Ecology from Colorado State University. Dr. Sanderson arrived in Colorado by a circuitous route involving natural resource management, research, and exploration in areas ranging from WestAfrica to Alaska. He has been working on wetlands and rivers in the arid western US since 1994. Republican River Water Conservation District: The Republican River Water Conservation District was created by the General Assembly of the S'tate of Colorado under ,S'enate Bill 04-235 (see link below) for the purpose of cooperating with and assisting the state to carry out its duty to comply with the limitations and duties imposed zipon the state by the Republican River Compact. The map below depicts the district's boundaries. 15