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KATHY KANDA has been the Communications Director for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources since 1991. She has more than 20 years experience in journalism, public information and program management. She also has extensive experience as a trainer, project planner and coordinator, and meeting facilitator. This includes coordinating breakout sessions for the 1992 Governor's Water Convention, the 1993 Wildlife Convention and the two 1995 Smart Growth and Development Summits. RICHARD ERIC KUHN is employed by the Colorado River Water District as assistant Secretary-Engineer. He is responsible for technical management of the River District's activities including Taylor Draw Dam and Reservoir, Wolford Mountain Reservoir, water marketing, interstate water issues and integrated project operations. He represents the West Slope on interstate issues including the Colorado River Endangered Fishes Recovery Program and Colorado River operations. He was appointed to the Colorado Water Conservation Board in 1994 by Governor Romer to represent the Colorado River mainstem. Prior to coming to the River District in 1981, Mr. Kuhn was a start-up engineer for Bechtel Power Corporation from 1978- 1981 and served in the United States Navy as engineer aboard a nuclear submarine. MARC LIVERMAN is the Water Program Manager for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. His main duties include water policy analysis and development, providing technical assistance to Department field staff on water-related issues, and representing the Department at various scientific meetings. Mr. Liverman oversees certification of more than 950 pending in stream water right applications. He also recently coordinated ecological input necessary to conserve sensitive fish populations during resolution of a statewide backlog of more than 6,000 applications for out-of-stream water uses. Mr. Liverman's work experience includes research activities at a variety of public and private institutions, college-level teaching, and environmental advocacy as former Conservation Director of the Portland Audubon Society. JAl\mS B. MARTIN, a senior attorney, has specialized in water and air resources and public lands issues in the western United States for nearly fifteen years, and joined the Environmental Defense Fund in 1994. In the mid-1980s, he represented a number of Columbia River Indian tribes in litigation, legislation, and policy development. From 1984-1986, he represented EDF in a proceeding before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in a successful effort to defeat a hydroelectric project, and represented EDF and other conservation organizations in drafting a joint federal/state/private program for conserving endangered fish species of the upper Colorado River. From 1986-1993, Mr. Martin served Senator Tim Wirth as counsel for energy, environment and natural resources and as the Senator's state director. During that time, he was one of the principal architects of water rights language that broke a ten-year impasse over wilderness designation in Colorado; helped draft a series of bills to reauthorize the Clean Air Act and in 1990 helped draft amendments to the Clean Air Act that established the acid rain control program and the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission. Mr. Martin also worked with a wide range of citizen groups, Indian tribes and governmental entities on a number of water resources issues, and has extensive experience in working on a number of federal land and resource management policies and statutes. DAN McAULllf}'E is an Assistant Director for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. Areas of responsibility include coordinating wildlife, parks, mineral and energy policy, as well as working with federal agencies and the congress on legislation and policy initiatives that impact Colorado. He worked in Washington, D.C., for a U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator as a legislative director on a wide range of natural resource issues.