National Advisory Board

Terry Anderson is the executive director of PERC—the Property and Environment Research Center—a non-profit institute dedicated to improving environmental quality through markets; Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; and professor emeritus at Montana State University. His work helped launch the idea of “free market environmentalism” with the publication of his book by that title, coauthored with Donald Leal. Anderson is the author or editor of 30 books. These include Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 1997), also coauthored with Leal, and Property Rights: Cooperation, Conflict, and Law, coedited with Fred S. McChesney (Princeton University Press 2003). His latest book with Peter J. Hill, The Not So Wild, Wild West (Stanford University Press 2004) was awarded the 2005 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award. Anderson has published widely in both professional journals and the popular press, including the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Fly Fisherman. He received his B.S. from the University of Montana in 1968 and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington in 1972, after which he began his teaching career at Montana State University where he won several teaching awards. Anderson is an avid outdoorsman and a skilled bow hunter with a passion for hunting in Africa.

Dinah Bear is General Counsel of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) in the Executive Office of the President. Ms. Bear joined CEQ as Deputy General Counsel in 1981, and was appointed General Counsel in 1983, serving in that capacity through September, 1993, and resuming that position in January of 1995. She has chaired the Standing Committee on Environmental Law of the American Bar Association and the Steering Committee of the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Division of the District of Columbia Bar. She has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Sierra Club and the Chairman’s Award from the Natural Resources Council of America. Ms. Bear graduated from McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, California, in 1977, and received a Bachelors of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1974. She has been admitted to practice by the State Bar of California, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Raymond Cross teaches introductory and advanced courses in Indian and Public Land law at The University of Montana School of law, and he coaches the National Native American Law Students’ Moot Court team that placed second nationally in 2004. He works extensively with Indian tribes, Indian organizations, and federal agencies on issues of Indian education, tribal self-determination, and cultural and natural resources preservation. Professor Raymond Cross’ legal career in Indian Country is chronicled in a new book entitled Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes and the Trial That Forged A Nation (Little, Brown Publishing Co. 2004). He began his legal career as a staff attorney with California Indian Legal Services (C.I.L.S.) in its Mendocino County office located in Ukiah, California. He later served from 1975-80 as the Indian Law Support Center Director for Native American Rights Fund (NARF), a public interest law firm located in Boulder, Colorado. Professor Cross returned in 1981 to serve as tribal attorney for his tribal people, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Professor Cross is a 1973 graduate of Yale Law School.

Steve Doherty is Co-Chair of the Progressive Legislative Action Network. He has also served as a trainer for the National Democratic Institute in the People's Republic of China. By day Doherty is an attorney specializing in American Indian Law and also the former Minority Leader of the Montana State Senate. He served in the Senate for 12 years, both in majority and minority leadership positions and was the Democratic leader for two sessions. Active in national efforts to increase state legislators’ effectiveness, Doherty was an early supporter of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators. Steve is a graduate of the Center for Policy Alternatives Flemming Fellows program and went on to serve as a trainer for the program. Recently, Steve was appointed by the Governor of Montana as Chairman of the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission. Doherty was born and raised in Great Falls, Montana. He is a graduate of Lewis and Clark Law School in Oregon, where he was recently honored as a Distinguished Environmental Law graduate for 2005. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

John Echohawk , a Pawnee, is the Executive Director of the Native American Rights Fund. He was the first graduate of the University of New Mexico's special program to train Indian lawyers, and was a founding member of the American Indian Law Students Association while in law school. John has been with NARF since its inception, having served continuously as Executive Director since 1977. He has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by the National Law Journal since 1988 and has received numerous service awards and other recognition for his leadership in the Indian law field. He serves on the Boards of the American Indian Resources Institute, the Association on American Indian Affairs, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. B.A., University of New Mexico (1967); J.D., University of New Mexico (1970); Reginald Heber Smith Fellow (1970-72); Native American Rights Fund (August 1970 to present); admitted to practice law in Colorado.

John C. Freemuth, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at the Cecil D. Andrus Center for Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Boise State University, where his emphasis is in natural resource and public land policy and administration. He is the author of an award-winning book, Islands under Siege: National Parks and the Politics of External Threats ( University Of Kansas, 1991) as well numerous articles on natural resource policy. He is also the author of six Andrus Center white papers based on Center conferences. He was chair of the Science Advisory Board of the Bureau of Land Management, where he worked on policies to improve the use of scientific information for land managers as well as improve the relationship between science and democratic decision processes. Dr. Freemuth was named the Carnegie/CASE Professor of the Year for Idaho in 2001.

Bob Keiter is the Wallace Stegner Professor of Law and Director of the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources, and the Environ­ment at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. He holds a J.D. degree with honors from Northwestern University and a B.A. with honors from Washington University. He has taught at the University of Wyoming, Boston College, and Southwest­ern University, and served as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal. Professor Keiter teaches Natural Resources Law, Constitution­al Law, Administrative Law, and Federal Courts. His books include Keeping Faith With Nature: Ecosystems, Democracy, and America’s Public Lands (Yale University Press, 2003); Reclaiming the Native Home of Hope: Community, Ecology, and the West (1998); Visions of the Grand Staircase-Escalante: Examining Utah’s Newest National Monument (1998); The Wyoming State Constitution: A Reference Guide (1993); and The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: Redefining America's Wilderness Heritage (1991). He has also written numerous book chapters and journal articles on the public lands and natural resource law, many addressing the topic of ecosystem management. He currently serves as a Trustee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and the National Parks Conservation Association

Paul Larmer came to High Country News as an editorial intern in 1984 and went on to earn a Master's Degree in Natural Resource Policy from the University of Michigan. From there, he worked for five years for the national Sierra Club in San Francisco, returning to High Country News as an assistant editor in 1992. Paul founded the Writers on the Range syndicated op-ed columns service for Western newspapers in 1997, and served as High Country News' Editor from 2001 to 2002. Since hen he has served as the executive director and publisher. Paul, his wife Lisa Cook, and their two children, Zoe and Zachary, live on a small ranch in Western Colorado.

Jerome C. Muys is president of Muys & Associates, P.C. in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Princeton and Stanford Law School. He is past Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Section of Energy, Environment and Resources Law and of the Water Law Committee of the International Bar Association’s Section of Energy and Resources Law. He has taught federal land and natural resources law at the University of Virginia Law School (1977-1995) and water law at George Washington University Law School (1991-1996). Mr. Muys’ experience with respect to public land matters derives originally from his service from 1966-1970 as Assistant General Counsel and Chief of the Legal Staff of the Public Land Law Review Commission, where he supervised the conduct of the legal components of the thirty-three studies carried out for the Commission and assisted in drafting the Commission’s 1970 report, One Third of the Nation’s Land. He has since been active with respect to a wide variety of public land legislation and litigation. Mr. Muys’ experience in water resources matters includes litigation involving state, federal, Indian, private and environmental claims respecting water resources allocation and development, including federal hydropower licensing; Congressional and administrative consideration of federal-state-Indian relations; and negotiations with the Bureau of Reclamation. He served as a California deputy attorney general and later as special counsel to California in Arizona v. California (1963), the Colorado River litigation, and subsequently has represented the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California as special counsel in later stages of that case. In 1971 he prepared a study on interstate water compacts for the National Water Commission which was the basis for the Commission’s recommendations on interstate compacts in its 1973 report, Water Policies for the Future. He served as Special Master in Oklahoma and Texas v. New Mexico (1993), a dispute over the Canadian River Compact. He has recently served as a consultant to the Texas Attorney General with respect to interstate issues on the Rio Grande, and is currently working on a project for the Utton Transboundary Resources Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law to draft a model interstate water compact.

Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Rieke is the Area Manager for the Lahontan Basin Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in western Nevada, which includes the Truckee, Carson, Humboldt and Walker River basins. Her previous positions include: Director, Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado School of Law; Assistant Secretary for Water and Science in the Department of the Interior; Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources; Partner, Jennings Strouss and Salmon in Phoenix, Arizona; and Chief Counsel, Arizona Department of Water Resources. She received her J. D. from the University of Arizona. She has spent most of her career addressing complex water resources conflicts.

Rebecca W. Watson is a partner in the Denver office of Hogan & Hartson. Ms. Watson has more than 20 years of legal and policy experience in the fields of natural resources, federal environmental law, energy, and recreation. Ms. Watson served as the Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior for Lands and Minerals Management during the President's first term. She provided policy guidance to the Bureau of Land Management, the Minerals Management Service, and the Office of Surface Mining. Ms. Watson practiced law in Montana and Washington, D.C. where she represented clients on regulatory, legislative, mining and timber matters. Ms. Watson was an assistant general counsel for the U.S. Department of Energy where she managed the development of domestic and international legal policy surrounding the production and use of energy. She began her legal career in Wyoming as a federal district law clerk and partner in a Sheridan law firm. She has a B.A., magna cum laude, M.A., and her J.D. from the University of Denver in Colorado.

Julia Wondolleck is on the faculty of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan where she teaches courses in Environmental Dispute Resolution, Collaborative Resource Management, Negotiation, and Mediation of Public Disputes. Her central focus is on understanding the challenges and approaches to environmental decision-making in the face of diverse yet legitimate interests, scientific complexity, and often conflicting and ambiguous legal direction. Her research looks at both conflict and collaboration in the management of public natural resources and, in particular, the factors that promote and sustain community-based collaborative resource management processes. She was a member of the USDA Committee of Scientists that examined the national forest management process and recommended a new approach to planning, one grounded in principles of sustainability and pursued in a collaborative manner. Wondolleck has twice been named Outstanding Professor of the Year in the School of Natural Resources and Environment. She is the co-author (with Steven Yaffee) of Making Collaboration Work: Lessons from Innovation in Natural Resource Management (Island Press, 2000); author of Public Lands Conflict and Resolution: Managing National Forest Disputes (NY: Plenum, 1988); and co-author (with James Crowfoot) of Environmental Disputes: Community Involvement in Conflict Resolution (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1990). Wondolleck received her masters and PhD in Environmental Policy and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her AB in Economics from the University of California, Davis