PUB00105

• Year: 1999
• Title: Conference Proceedings: 24th Annual Gunnison Water Workshop
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Description: Theme of the workshop was Garden of Dreams v. High-Desert Reality
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

DANIEL F. LUECKE
Senior Scientist and Director Environmental Defense Fund,
Rocky Mountain Regional Office (Boulder, Colorado)

A graduate of Notre Dame, Dan completed his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences at Harvard
University. He worked as a Senior Environmental Engineer with a Cambridge, Massachusetts
Environmental firm and taught at Harvard University's Center for Studies in Education and
Development. Dan has served on several advisory committees including the following: Colorado
Water Resources Research Institute Advisory Committee on Water Policy Research; Denver
Metropolitan Water Roundtable; California Department of Water Resources Technical Advisory
Committee on Desalination; Advisor to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations; and EPA Integrated Environmental Management Program Advisory Committee. He cur-
rently serves as President of the board of the Colorado Conservation Foundation and the advisory board of the University of
Colorado Natural Resources Law Center and he is the past President of the board of the High Country News Foundation. He is also
on the advisory boards of the Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy and the Colorado State University
Environment and Natural Resources Institute, and is the chair of the executive committee of the Colorado Environmental Caucus.

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STEVEN O. SIMS
First Assistant Attorney General, State of Colorado

Steve Sims is the First Assistant Attorney General supervising the Water Unit of the Colorado
Attorney General's Office. The Water Unit represents the State and Division Engineers, the
Groundwater Commission, Well Driller's Board, the Colorado Water Conservation Board, the
Division of Wildlife, the Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation and a dozen other state agencies
with water right issues. Currently the six attorneys in the Water Unit handle over 1000 active cases.
Steve has been with the Attorney General's Office since 1989 and has been licensed to practice law
in Colorado since 1979.

Steve is lead counsel in the Union Park litigation and has tried over 30 water law cases and has
been counsel of record in a number of Colorado Supreme Court appeals including Board of County Commissioners of Arapahoe
County v. United States, Thornton v. Bijou, Midway Ranches and Turkey Canon Ranch. He received his B.A, from the University
of Colorado in 1975 and his J.D. from the University of Puget Sound in 1979. He is married to Karen Burns and lives in Boulder
with his three horses and two German Shepherd dogs.

ERIC KUHN
General Manager, Colorado River Water Conservation District
(Glenwood Springs)

Eric earned his BS degree in engineering from the University of New Mexico and a Masters
degree in Business Administration from Pcpperdine University in California.
He served as an engineer officer aboard nuclear submarines in the U,S. Navy and worked as a
nuclear start-up engineer for Bechtel Power Corporation.
Eric started employment with the River District in 1981 as Assistant Secretary-Engineer. His
responsibilities since then have included technical management of River District activities such as
Taylor Draw Dam and Reservoir, Wolford Mountain Reservoir, water marketing, interstate water
issues, and integrated project operations.
In July 1996 Eric assumed his current duties as General Manager of the Colorado River Water Conservation District.
In 1994 he was appointed by Governor Romer to the Colorado Water Conservation Board to represent the Colorado River
Mainstream and in 1996 and 1997 served as Chairman of that board.
When not addressing issues of the Colorado River, Eric, his wife and two daughters enjoy biking, skiing and hiking as the
seasons permit.

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