Born and raised in north Fort Collins, Don graduated from Colorado State University with B.S. in Civil Engineering in 2002 and went to work for an engineering firm focusing on water right engineering and planning management.  Don earned his license as a professional engineer in 2007 while attending law school at night at the University of Denver, graduating in 2007.  Don then went to work for the law firm Fischer, Brown, Bartlett & Gunn, P.C., focusing on water rights, water resources and related matters, and was named a partner in 2011.  In December 2019, Don accepted the position as General Manager/General Counsel for the Water Supply and Storage Company, Jackson Ditch Company and Tunnel Water Company, where he served until April 2024.

As both an engineer and attorney, Don has worked with and represented public and private clients on a wide variety of water rights planning and management projects, including extensive work in Water Court.  As General Manager of the Water Supply and Storage Company, Don oversaw water management in the Poudre Basin across 100 miles of ditches and 11 reservoirs, including two high mountain reservoirs and four transmountain diversions including the Grand River Ditch and Laramie-Poudre Tunnel.  Through his nearly 25 years of experience, Don has acquired extensive knowledge and expertise on the administration of water rights in the Poudre Basin.  Mr. Frick is a licensed professional engineer and licensed to practice law in both Colorado and Wyoming and has been a member of the Poudre Runs Through It Study/Action Work Group since 2020.

Lundt was born and raised in the Poudre Canyon. Her parents, Stan and Lola Case, owned and operated Arrowhead Lodge for 40 years. Sandra graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Health and Wellness, a master’s in education and Instruction and a type D Certification in Administration. She worked for the Poudre School district for 36 years.  Retiring after 16 years as Principal of Poudre High School.

Sandra has been involved in the Upper Poudre Canyon community for the last 50 years. She and her husband Jack have a retirement home located just above Arrowhead Lodge. Sandra is passionate about the history and stories of the Upper Poudre. She’s led Historic Tours of the Upper Poudre for a decade.

Mighty Arrow Family Foundation is the grant making and impact investing vehicle for the founding family of New Belgium Brewing. Jordana spent 7 years in the agricultural industry as a manager of Cargill’s plant breeding facility for their Specialty Canola Oils unit, and 10 years in the beer industry as New Belgium Brewing’s Corporate Secretary while also studying local water scarcity impacts and establishing the Mighty Arrow Family Office for New Belgium’s founder.

Now, Jordana spends most of her time building networks with other funders and deepening the Foundation’s relationships with their non-profit partners as the Foundation works to create change in regenerative agriculture, climate change, land & water stewardship, and social justice issues.

In her spare time, Jordana volunteers locally as a Larimer County Planning Commissioner, and with Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed as a Board Member.  Nationally, Jordana is a Board Director for American Rivers and is on the Steering Committee for the Funders for Regenerative Agriculture. Water has always been a common thread through Jordana’s career and personal passions.  If not in the office, she can be found exploring western rivers on a whitewater raft with her husband.

Mark has always had an interest in the timber industry. He and Karen met at Colorado State University in 1970. Mark is a 1973 graduate of Colorado State, with a Bachelor of Science degree in both Wood Science and Technology and Forestry. Mark started his forestry services business in October 1974. He is a board member of the Colorado Timber Industry Association (CTIA), the Colorado Tree Farmers liaison for CTIA and has achieved the Master Loggers Certificate from the Central Rockies Sustainable Forestry Education Program. Mark is also a member of the Intermountain Roundwood Association and Colorado Forest Products. Mark has been named Colorado Logger of the year twice.

Bernadette Kuhn was born and (kind of) raised on the centrally isolated Republican River in Kansas and developed a love for water while hauling irrigation pipe. After earning degrees at the University of Kansas and University of Wyoming, she has spent the past 18 years leading water and natural resource projects with a “leave it better than you found it” approach. Together with a team of amazing colleagues, she recently completed a headwaters restoration project with Colorado Parks and Wildlife at Soapstone Prairie Natural Area, an award-winning infrastructure project on the Poudre River, and a habitat equity article for the American Planning Association.

Robert served on the Engineering faculty at Colorado State University for 35 years, teaching courses related to water quality and systems analysis; conducting research on the design of water quality monitoring systems; and serving in various administrative positions.  He served as Director of the, then named, Colorado Water Resources Research Institute (today’s Water Center) from 1991-2005.  From 2001 to 2016 he served on the Board of the Poudre Heritage Alliance which oversees the Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area.

With 25 years of experience across federal land management agencies and local open space programs, Justin Scharton has built a diverse career focused on creating the greatest conservation impact possible. He holds a B.S. in Natural Resource Management and a Master’s in Natural Resource Stewardship from Colorado State University. Early in his career, Justin was a Colorado Conservation Trust Fellow at Larimer County Department of Natural Resources before managing Pitkin County’s conservation easement stewardship program. Justin spent eight years at the City of Fort Collins Natural Areas Department as a Senior Environmental Planner, where he and his team pioneered Nature in the City urban nature program. For the past six years, he has served as the Natural Areas & Trails Division Manager for the City of Greeley, building a local open space program in what is projected to become the largest city in northern Colorado.

Tim has been with AB InBev for 20 years and started at the Merrimack, MA brewery and progressed to positions at the Columbus, OH brewery and Fort Collins, CO brewery in NAZ Supply. At the Fort Collins brewery, Tim held roles as Resident Engineer and Sr. Resident Brewmaster before leading the Jacksonville Can Plant as Sr Plant Manager. Tim been Sr General Manager of Fort Collins brewery since 2022.

Tim holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Colorado State University, a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from University of Missouri – Science and Technology, and an Executive MBA from The Ohio State University. In addition, Tim is a Global Brewmaster Program Graduate (2018).

Jeni Arndt grew up in Fort Collins, CO. She has an MA in Geography from the Univ. of CO and an MA in Special Ed. from Purdue University in IN. After teaching special education, she earned a Ph.D. in Literacy and Language from Purdue.

Her professional experience includes Congressional intern, ESL teacher, Peace Corps volunteer, special ed teacher, middle school principal, International Baccalaureate Coordinator, university faculty member and department head.

Jeni volunteered on school boards in Lafayette, IN and Mozambique. She served on the Fort Collins Commission on Disability as well as Childsafe before running for State Representative in 2014. As a State Representative she focused on water, agriculture, small business and public education.

After 3+ terms in the General Assembly she was elected Mayor of Fort Collins in April 2021 and re-elected in 2023.

Levi Stockton is a native of Laporte, Colorado. He grew up raising, training, and showing Shire Draft Horses, and now also raises Dexter cattle with his wife and kids. He worked agricultural jobs at nurseries, sod farms, and training horses through high school and college until he graduated with his Environmental Engineering degree from CSU in 2012. He started working in asbestos consulting and Onsite Wastewater Treatment System design and passed the PE exam to earn his license in 2018. Levi started with the Water Supply and Storage Company shortly after, overseeing automation, rehabilitation, and improvement projects on the company’s canal system. He has become the company’s lead person on canal automation, SCADA, and remote monitoring of water conditions. He has been intimately involved in ditch company operations, driving trucks and running heavy equipment rebuilding portions of canals, filling in for ditch riders during deliveries, installing and maintaining remote monitoring equipment, and working with contractors, consultants, and regulators on large capital improvement projects.

John Larson is a partner and the operations manager of Larson Farms. He represents the fifth generation of his family to be involved in a diversified agricultural operation, which includes irrigated hay, corn silage, and cover crops for grazing, a beef cattle feedlot, and cow-calf ranching focused on grazing. The family operates east of Greeley at the furthest reach of the Cache La Poudre-fed ditches, where irrigated farmland transitions to rangeland.

John works alongside his father, grandfather, and sons, in a multigenerational tradition of farming and ranching. His sons are the sixth generation irrigating crops using the New Cache La Poudre Irrigation Company. They also utilize groundwater augmented by Poudre River resources. The family employs a variety of irrigation techniques including center pivot sprinklers, subsurface drip, and GPS precision leveled furrow irrigation. These methods are essential for their success in an extremely arid and variable climate that borders sagebrush, sub-irrigated meadows, and river bottom.

The Larson family is committed to the communities, water delivery systems, and the economic viability of the ag sector in the region. Sustainability and long-term viability are core values expressed in their family, customer, and employee relationships.

Richard Raines is the Water Resource Manager for the Tri-Districts and Soldier Canyon Water Treatment Authority. Richard is currently in his 15^th year working for the Tri-Districts and has been working in water rights and water supply since 1992.

From the Colorado Water Center: Water Resources Manager, Tri-Districts Richard Raines is the Water Resource Manager for the East Larimer County, Fort Collins-Loveland, and North Weld County Water Districts which are collectively known as the Tri-Districts. He is in his 15th year with the Tri-Districts and is responsible for the management of the water rights portfolios and raw water supplies for each district and the coordination of diversions at the Soldier Canyon Filter Plant. Richard has worked in water rights and water supply since 1992 and has worked in Fort Collins and the Front Range since 1997.

Brian is a native Coloradoan and water historian who has spent four decades actively involved in water resources management in Colorado. He retired in 2020 as the Public Information Officer and Head of the Communications Department at Northern Water, headquartered in Berthoud, CO.

Brian is a founding member of the Poudre Heritage Alliance, managing entity of the Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area, and was the local representative who testified before Congress in 1995 in support of the establishment of the Poudre River National Water Heritage Area. He also was a member of the board and chairman of the Poudre River Trust for nearly two decades.

Brian has written extensively and given hundreds of presentations on the role of water and natural resource issues in the settlement and development of the northern Front Range, Colorado and the American West.

He remains active in the water community in retirement serving on the Water Education Colorado Board of Directors, as a member of the Colorado Water Congress and as a speaker on many water-related issues.

Brian was born and raised in Colorado Springs and attended the University of Northern Colorado and Colorado State University earning undergraduate and master’s degrees in history.

In retirement, besides the water roles, Brian has taught a history of baseball class and is a Coors Field tour guide. He also wants to explore new golf courses, fish Colorado’s amazing rivers, watch neglected tv shows and movies, read more, write more and travel to places both distant and far.

He currently resides in Centennial, CO with his wife, Tina.

Wallce is the founder and former director of the Center for Protected Area Management at CSU. He has also farmed and ranched in No Colorado for 48 years and is active in land, water and natural resource issues and planning in No Colorado.