9587

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9587
• Author: Ayres Associates.
• Title: Environmental Permitting Services - Elkhead Reservoir and Yampa River Basin, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: Ft. Collins, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

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NEELAN RESOURCES

CATHLEEN NEELAN
Forest and Wildlife Ecologist

Education

Postgraduate Work, Ecology and Human Relations, University of Idaho
M.S., Forest Ecology, University of Missouri
B.S., Wildlife Ecology, Southern Illinois University

Training

· The Interaction Method Mastering Meetings for Results, developed by Interaction
Associates, Inc., San Francisco, California.

· Citizen Participation, Systematic Development of Informed Consent. The Institute of
Participatory Management and Planning, Laramie, Wyoming.

· Leadership and Communication, University of Idaho.

· Better Business Bureau Arbitration Training-National Program of Disput~ Resolution.
Council of Better Business Bureau, Colorado and Wyoming. !

· Negotiation and Mediation, Western States Training Association, NLP of Utah.

· Designing and Managing Search Conferences and Participative Design Workshops, New
Mexico State University, International Institute for Resources Management.

Experience

Cathleen Neelan works with communities, organizations, government and non-government
agencies to facilitate collaborative problem solving and environmental mediation. She has
facilitated meetings as numerous levels, including local, state, regional, national, and
international to resolve conflict and encourage cooperation. To keep up with events impacting
communities or their environment, she has researched issues focusing on growth impacts and
environmental impacts to community-based tourism. Her skill as an Arbitrator has won her
kudos from polarized groups working to find "common ground" in their disputes.

Ms. Neelan is committed to collaborative problem solving and has used it successfully in her 15
years of experience with federal agencies and special interest groups. She has devoted more
than a decade to developing cooperative partnership with federal, state, and non-governmental
organizations. This means facilitating groups with diverse interests and often opposing
opinions. Many of the environmental issues she has helped resolve were emotionally sensitive
(e.g., wolf reintroduction, old growth logging, wilderness designation, human impacts from