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GERALD B. MCDANIEL began practicing with his father's law firm in Durango in 1978 and has been with the firm since then. Mr. McDaniel's practice has included real estate and special/conservancy districts with a strong emphasis on water law for the past 10 years. His water practice has included representing conservancy districts (Florida and Animas La Plata), conversion of agricultural rights to domestic uses, and water rights and title opinions. Last year he tried what he believes to be the first well-to-well injury case in La Plata County, Colorado. Mr. McDaniel served more than three years on the B.L.M. Advisory Council, is currently serving as chair of the Club 20 water subcommittee, and was named to the Colorado Farm Bureau Water Task Force in 1992. He has testified before the State Senate Agriculture Committee supporting conservation water rights several times and has travelled to Washington D.C. many times on behalf of Club 20 and the Animas La Plata District. He is a third generation native of Southwest Colorado/La Plata County. JOHN W. MllMl\lA has been the Director of the Colorado Division of Wildlife since November of 1995. He has held numerous positions with the U.S. Forest Service over the past 30 years, most recently as Regional Forester for the Northern Region, including Montana, Idaho and North Dakota, where he had overall responsibilities for 25 million acres, more than 4,000 employees and a budget of nearly $300 million. He initiated the first integrated/interdisciplinary approach to ecosystem management in the Forest Service. He has also worked in Washington D.C., Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Oregon. He has received numerous awards during his career with the U.S.F.S. and has served on a number of committees of national significance, including the congressionally delegated committee to introduce wolves to the Yellowstone area. He was a member of the Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee with management and policy responsibilities for that 13 million acre area. He was appointed by the Governor of Utah to represent all federal agencies on the policy-making boards for big game control and animal damage contro1. Mr. Mumma also began a consulting business in 1991, where he worked with land owners, ranchers, Indian tribes, interest groups and government agencies. PATRICK O'DRlSCOLL covers regional news for the Denver Post and recently helped to complete a comprehensive four-part series entitled, "The Future of the South Platte River." He came to the Post in 1989 after six years as a cover story writer for USA Today and eight years as a reporter and editor for the Nevada State Journal in Reno. JANIS OLMSTEAD is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Resource and Agricultural Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is writing her dissertation on water marketing in California and was one of the chief developers of the WaterLink electronic water marketing system. Ms. Olmstead received an A.B. from Princeton University and a M.A. in agricultural economics from the University of California, Davis. Her previous research includes studies of electric utility demand-side management, the political economy of gasoline taxation and alternative-fueled vehicle mandates. LINDA POWERS represents Senate district 4 in Colorado, which sits atop the Continental Divide and is composed of four East Slope and four West slope counties. The counties of Senate District 4 are the headwaters counties, with the South Platte, Arkansas, Roaring Fork and Gunnison Rivers originating in the district. She has served on the Senate Agriculture Livestock and Natural Resource committees since being elected and in 1993 served on the Interim Water Committee. In the 1996 legislative session, Senator Powers introduced two bills relating to water: one was a bill to address the issue of exempt wells on 35-acre subdivisions; the other was an expansion of the definition of beneficial use in relation to in stream flows.