Gilmore graduated in 1994 with a B.S. in wildlife biology and minors in fisheries and conservation biology. The Colorado Division of Wildlife recruited him to help create a small urban fishing program that would introduce urban youth to the joys of fishing and conservation. In 2004, the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame recognized the program as one of the most innovative and successful urban fishing programs in the nation.

In 1996, Gilmore and his wife co-founded the nonprofit organization, Environmental Learning for Kids (ELK). Through fun educational experiences such as fishing, hiking, and camping, urban youth are inspired to become responsible, engaged citizens and stewards to Colorado’s natural resources.

Susan Howard, an entrepreneur and educator, is co-founder and managing director of Howard Delafield International, LLP (HDI). She applies design thinking, gamification, game-based learning, and direct-to-consumer marketing to linked health, environmental, social, and economic challenges.

Howard has secured and managed more than $35 million for products, programs, and interventions that take a systems approach to humanitarian, global health, and environmental problems. Her multidisciplinary team of more than 25 pioneered the use of games in global health and sustainable development. Game of Choice, Not Chance, a USAID-funded platform for adolescents in India, logged more than 100,000 downloads in its first three months.

Her 2021 research in Environmental Communication used game-based simulations to link human behavior to disease emergence.

Howard holds a PhD in environmental science and policy from George Mason University, an MPH from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a BA from Wesleyan University. She received the 2016 National Park Service Centennial Service Award.

Robert McDonald is an environmental professional with more than 50 years of experience. He has worked for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Bureau of Land Management, and held executive positions at several environmental engineering firms.

McDonald helped develop agency regulations to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and has managed more than 400 interdisciplinary environmental analyses for industrial projects across the United States.

He is a past president of the National Association of Environmental Professionals and a board trustee of the Institute of Professional Environmental Practice (IPEP), which gave him its 2008 award for Professional Development and Mentoring. He is a Qualified Environmental Professional and a Certified Environmental Professional, and holds a B.S. in fisheries science (1966) and an M.S. in natural resource administration (1974) from Colorado State University.

Greg Roush is chief operating officer of Leonard Rice Engineering, Inc., where he has worked for more than 30 years. He gives municipal and business clients strategic counsel and technical expertise in water rights engineering, acquisition, and portfolio protection, as well as watershed yield analysis, management, and protection.

Roush has worked across the region on a broad range of water rights issues. His work runs from river basin modeling for state adjudications and crop and wetland consumptive use analyses to changes of water rights in water court for cities and private industry, including snowmaking for a ski area.

He is president of the American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado and past chair of the Water Resources Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Colorado Section. He holds a B.S. in watershed science (1981) from Colorado State University.

Robert Stollar is a partner with Regenesis Management Group, affiliate faculty in the Department of Geosciences in CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources, and a member of the department’s Geosciences Advisory Council. He founded R.L. Stollar and Associates, an environmental and groundwater consulting firm, and led it as president and chief technical officer from 1983 until selling it in 1991.

As a consultant, Stollar has provided project management and technical assistance to clients nationwide in groundwater resources, contaminant hydrogeology, groundwater modeling and monitoring, aquifer remediation, hazardous materials impacts, and allocating financial responsibility for remediation.

He received the Willem Rudolfs Medal for industrial waste control and CSU’s Distinguished Alumni Award, served as a CSU commencement speaker, and was the Geological Society of America’s John F. Mann Mentor in Applied Hydrogeology. He holds a B.A. in geology from Hunter College and an M.S. in geology, specializing in hydrology, from CSU (1969).

Tom Thompson is owner of TLThompson Consulting, LLC, and a leader in the forestry profession. He spent 36 years with the U.S. Forest Service, rising from forester-trainee to deputy chief before retiring in 2005.

A member of the Society of American Foresters since 1968, Thompson was named an SAF Fellow in 1995 and served as the society’s president in 2008. He is a board member and past director of the National Museum of Forest Service History. He is also executive producer of The Greatest Good, an award-winning documentary on the history of the Forest Service that is shown in classrooms nationwide.

Thompson holds a B.S. in forest management (1968) from Colorado State University.

Benjamin N. Tuggle is president of Impulse ABT, LLC, and serves on the national board of Conservation Without Conflict. He retired in 2019 after more than 40 years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Tuggle’s final Service role was assistant director for Science Applications. In that role, he brought together federal, state, and local agencies, tribes, industry, and conservation groups to ground fish and wildlife decisions in sound science. Before that, he spent 11 years as director of the Southwest Region, leading 1,000 employees across Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona through some of the nation’s most complex endangered species issues.

A longtime advocate for field biologists, Tuggle has worked to expand opportunities in the natural sciences for young people, particularly minority youth. He has published 16 peer-reviewed papers and three chapters in Service resource publications. He holds a B.S. in biology from Fort Valley State University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.

Ed Warner, namesake of CSU’s Warner College of Natural Resources, is a partner with Regenesis Management Group and past president and owner of Expedition Oil Company. He spent 30 years as an exploration geologist and founded Expedition Oil in 1982.

Through a partnership with McMurry Oil Co., Warner developed innovative methods to tap Wyoming’s Jonah Field, estimated to hold more than 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

In 2005, Warner gave $30 million to CSU, then the largest gift in university history. It established endowed chairs in economic geology and geophysics and created the Center for Collaborative Conservation.

Warner serves on the boards of the Sand County Foundation, the Explorers Foundation, and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He has received public service awards from the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. He holds a B.S. in geosciences from CSU, an M.S. in geology from UCLA, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from CSU

Cindy Williams is co-chair of Envision Chaffee County, a nonprofit the Chaffee County Commissioners formed in 2017 to guide community visioning and action. Envision has engaged more than 1,500 people and 80 organizations and helped pass a 2018 county sales tax that provides about $1.5 million a year for healthy forests and agricultural lands. It also produced the county’s wildfire protection plan and outdoor recreation management plan.

Williams spent 30 years in domestic and international mining, rising from exploration geologist in South America to corporate officer at Newmont Mining, where she was the highest-ranking woman. As a vice president, she led global exploration, development, technical services, innovation, and due diligence programs.

The Heart of the Rockies Chamber of Commerce named her 2019 Woman of the Year. Williams holds a B.S. and M.S. in geology from CSU and an executive leadership certificate from the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business.

Ken Wilson is a professor emeritus in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. He served on the faculty from 1991 until retiring in 2020 and was department head from 2006 to 2018. He taught more than 10 courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

With his students and colleagues, Wilson studied how human activities affect wildlife, the population ecology of small mammals, and patterns of species richness, including how well species distributions can be predicted across landscapes.

In retirement, he enjoys travel, hiking, fishing, and wildlife watching. He is glad to help Warner College build on its reputation as a global leader in natural resources education, research, and outreach.