Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons

Appendix G: Photo Gallery

445 A p p e n d i x G Photo Gallery Top left: Whooping crane (© Al Mueller/Shutterstock). Top right: Interior least tern (courtesy, Executive Director’s Office—Platte River Recovery Implementation Program [PRRIP]). Bottom left: Piping plover (courtesy, Executive Director’s Office—Platte River Recovery Implementation Program [PRRIP]). Bottom right: Pallid sturgeon (photo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). 446 Top left: Gurnsey Dam and Reservoir (photograph from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation). Top right: Kingsley Dam at Lake McConaughy (public domain photo). Bottom left: Infrared photo­ graph of a densely vegetated segment of the Platte River (courtesy, Executive Director’s Office— Platte River Recovery Implementation Program [PRRIP]). Bottom right: Platte segment after clearing (courtesy, Executive Director’s Office—Platte River Recovery Implementation Program [PRRIP]). 447 Top left: Pathfinder Dam (photo from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation). Top right: Seminoe Dam (photo from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation). Bottom left: Glendo Reservoir (photo from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation). 448 Top left: Clayton Derby (left), deputy administrator; Dale Strickland, executive director, Gover­ nance Committee support. Top right: Felipe Chavez­Ramirez (left), executive director, Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust; Dan Luecke, Environmental Defense and National Wildlife Federation. Bottom left: Kevin Urie (left), environmental planner; David Little, director of planning, Denver Water. Bottom right: John Altenhofen, NCWCD engineer who represented NCWCD in assem­ bling Colorado’s Tamarack Plan. (Photographs by author.) 449 Top left: Ann Bleed, deputy director and director, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources. Top right: Nebraska’s core negotiating team (left to right): Brian Barels, NPPD; James Cook, le­ gal counsel to the NDNR; Donald Kraus, manager CNPPID; Dennis Strauch, manager Pathfinder Irrigation District. Bottom left: Ronald Bishop, manager Central NRD. Bottom right: Kent Miller, Twin Platte NRD. (Photographs by author.) Top left: Ralph Morgenweck, USFWS, regional director, Mountain and Prairie Region. Top right: John Lawson, USBR, area manager, Great Plains Region. Bottom left: Margot Zallen (left), U.S. Department of the Interior; Mark Butler, USFWS, designated Platte recov­ ery program team leader. Source: Photographs by author. 450 Left: Steve Anschutz, USFWS, supervisor, Grand Island Field Office. Right: Sharon Whitmore, USFWS EA account manager at Lake McConaughy, in Grand Island Field Office. (Photographs by author.) Top left: Richard Holloway, assistant manager Tri­Basin NRD. Top right: A cathedral of the high plains: grain storage for global economy, Holdrege, Nebraska. Bottom left: Wyoming core negotiating team: Mike Besson (left), Wyoming Water Development Commission; Mike Purcell, consultant and former director of same commission. Bottom right: Colorado core negotiating team (left to right): Steve Sims, formerly Colorado Attorney General’s Office, later a private con­ tractor; Ted Kowalski, legal counsel, CWCB; Alan Berryman, NCWCD; Donald Ament, agricul­ tural commissioner. (Photographs by author.) ...