9370 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9370
• Author: Colorado Water Workshop.
• Title: 1996 Colorado Water Workshop.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Western State College of Colorado.
• Copyright Material: NO

ROBERT M. WEAVER is an Environmental Consultant and project manager for
Hydrosphere Resource Consultants in Boulder, Colo. He has 25 years of experience in the fields
of water resources planning and development, water quality, environmental impact assessment
and public policy issues associated with management of natural resources. He has a broad range
of experience throughout the Rocky Mountain Region in issues associated with the development
and management of water resources including federal, state and local permitting requirements.
In the early 1970s, Mr. Weaver was the Executive Director of Colorado Trout Unlimited and
was involved in the drafting of Senate Bill 97 which established the Colorado Instream Flow
Program. His involvement in in stream flow issues includes consulting work for environmental
organizations, ski areas, and water districts on the technical and public policy issues associated
with in stream flows. In addition, he has represented environmental organizations as a member
of the Management Committee for the Recovery Program for the Endangered Fishes of the
Upper Colorado River.

CHARLES B. "BARNEY" WIllTE is a member of the firm of Petros & White, LLC
in Denver, Colo. Before forming this firm in March, 1996, Mr. White was a shareholder in
Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber & Strickland, P.C. His practice emphasizes water rights and public
land law in Colorado and other western states. He has taught water law at the University of
Denver and written several law review articles on water rights and water quality issues. Since
1982, Mr. White has represented the owners of several private instream flow rights in the
Gunnison River Basin and participated in the adjudication of the claim to refill Taylor Park
Reservoir for downstream fishery and recreational uses.

DUANE WOODARD is currently General Counsel with the Constitution Subcommittee of
the U.S. Senate Judiciary, chaired by U.S. Senator Hank Brown. Mr. Woodard served eight
years as the State of Colorado's Attorney General and Chief Legal Officer for two
administrations, Governors Richard Lamm (1983-1986) and Roy Romer (1987-1991). In 1976,
Mr. Woodard was elected to the Colorado General Assembly and served as the Senate Assistant
Majority Leader from 1979-1980.

THE CRESTED BUTTE RIVER WATCH PROGRAM is sponsored by the
Colorado Division of Wildlife to collect data on the water quality of local rivers and to provide
students with the opportunity to participate in real science. Middle school and high school
students collect water samples and chemically test them in the lab using sophisticated equipment
and techniques. The data students collect is kept in a Division of Wildlife data base to be used
by their Natural Resources Dept. as well as by anyone else who might need it. Locally, students
sample the Slate River in Crested Butte and the East, Taylor and Gunnison Rivers in Almont.
They have been sampling these rivers since December of 1991, every month throughout the
year.