Headwaters Summer 2006

• Year: 2006
• Title: Headwaters
• Author: Colorado Foundation for Water Education
• Description: The Groundwater Puzzle
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

Land Conservancy's Glaser Succeeds Brown as CFWE Director
One thing no one will say about Don
Glaser's career: that there's not much to
read about.
Glaser, Colorado Foundation for
Water Education's new executive direc-
tor, has a resume packed with experi-
ence in management, fundraising, and
negotiating, and dealing with everyone
from presidential cabinet members to
tribal leaders to ranchers. Experience
in the private sector? It's there. Public
service? Got it. Nonprofits? Yes.
The CFWE Board of Directors in May
selected Glaser, a natural resource spe-
cialist with more than 25 years experi-
ence in western water and land issues,
to succeed Karla Brown. Glaser worked
with Brown in June before she resigned
her position with the Foundation.
"Following Karla Brown's very capable
and successful leadership as the first exec-
utive director of the CFWE, I am delighted
that we were able to hire Don Glaser as her
replacement," said Diane Hoppe, President
of the Foundation's Board of Trustees. "He
brings a great deal of experience, talent
and energy that will be a tremendous asset
to the Foundation."
For the past three years, Glaser
served as the executive director for the
Douglas Land Conservancy, overseeing
the organization's land conservation pro-
grams and fund raising activities. During
his tenure, DLC doubled the land under
protection and tripled the stewardship
endowment fund.
Highlights of Glaser's career include:
• 2000 -2003 — Senior manager,
National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation; formulated new
conservation partnerships;
served as the foundation's
chief operating officer in
its Washington, D.C. office
and the Intermountain West
regional director.
• 1998 -2000 — Consultant, spe-
cializing in natural resources,
CFWE Executive Director Don Glaser
water, and institutional manage-
ment in the West; negotiated
first CALFED contract with the
California Resources Agency
on behalf of the National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation; instru-
mental in securing additional
municipal water for Loveland
and Pueblo.
• 1996 — Executive director,
Western Water Policy Review
Advisory Commission,
reviewed, under the guidance
of the presidential commission,
the status of western water
resources and federal policy
changes needed to address
water challenges for the next 20
years; managed a staff of scien-
tists, engineers, water attorneys,
social scientists, environmental
specialists, and policy analysts
in dispersed locations.
• 1995 — State Director, Bureau of
Land Management, oversaw the
management of public lands and
leasing of minerals in Colorado;
implemented range reform
including the development of
standards for rangeland health
and guidelines for grazing.
• 1975 -1995 — U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation, served in increas-
ingly more responsible positions
in the Great Plains Region includ-
ing personnel director, project
manager, and assistant regional
director; assistant commission-
er; and deputy commissioner.
Glaser is a graduate of Eastern Montana
College, now Montana State University -
Billings, with a bachelors of science in
business administration and economics.
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