APPENDIX D: AUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES

Major contributors to this handbook include.

Christopher J. Duerksen, Managing Director of Clarion Associates of Colorado. A land-use attorney by training, Duerksen has worked with both public and private sector clients throughout the United States on land use planning and growth management issues. Previously, he worked for the noted urban developer, James Rouse at the Enterprise Foundation, a national non-profit affordable housing organization, and directed the City of Denver's Gateway/Stapleton Development Office. Duerksen is former chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Land Use, Planning, and Zoning and serves as Chairman of the Board of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute at the University of Denver School of Law. He currently writes a fly fishing column for the American Angler magazine and lives in Denver with his wife Jan and two boys, Benjamin and Matthew.

Donald L. Elliott is Vice President of Clarion Associates of Colorado, LLC. Don is both a land use attorney and a city and regional planner by training. His practice focuses on land planning and zoning, growth management, and international land and urban development issues. Prior to joining Clarion, Don was Project Director for the Denver Planning and Community Development Office responsible for the Gateway Project and the Downtown Zoning Project. He also practiced real estate, zoning, and land use law with the Denver law firm of Davis, Graham & Stubbs for four years. Don has a bachelor's degree in Urban Planning and Policy Analysis from Yale University, a law degree from Harvard Law School, and a masters degree in City and Regional Planning from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is the Immediate Past President of the Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association, a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and a member of the American, Colorado, and Denver Bar Associations.

N. Thompson Hobbs is a Life Scientist IV with the Colorado Division of Wildlife and is a Research Scientist for the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory of the Colorado State University. Hobbs received a Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University in 1979. Since then his work has focused on ecological relationships between vertebrates and their habitats. Hobbs has published many many scientific articles and monographs and his work has been widely recognized in professional awards, including the Wildlife Society's Publication Award for the Outstanding Article in Wildlife Ecology and Management during 1984 and again in 1992. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Wildlife Management and is a former member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Range Management. Hobbs is a member of the Ecological Society of America's Select Panel on Land Use Change. He lives in Fort Collins with his wife of 20 years, Deborah, his son Nicholas and daughter Sarah. He is an active member of the Fort Collins Soccer Club and in 1995 was the Club's Coach of the Year.

Erin Johnson is a Western Slope Colorado native and has been associated with Clarion Associates since 1992. She received a Juris Doctor degree in 1994 from the University of Denver College of Law with an emphasis in land use issues, and has a bachelor's degree in planning. She is a member of the Colorado Bar and the American Institute of Certified Planners. Her background includes fifteen years of practice as a planner with a wide range of experience in both the public and private sectors. Ms. Johnson is a co-author, with Professor Edward H. Ziegler, of Development Agreements: Analysis, Colorado Case Studies, and Commentary, published in 1993 by the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute.

James R. Miller is a doctoral candidate in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University. He obtained a master's degree in wildlife biology from CSU in 1993. Jim's current research project focuses on changes in the composition of riparian bird communities associated with increasing levels of urban development along Colorado's Front Range. While at CSU, he has authored or co-authored a number of technical papers in peer-reviewed journals and published a short story in American Nature Writing 1995. An active member of several scientific organizations, Jim recently served as the president of the CSU Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology and is a board member for the Colorado Bat Society.