Daniel Luecke is a private environmental consultant with expertise that includes water resources, habitat restoration, and endangered species protection. He is the author of numerous articles on resource use, environmental management, and mathematical modeling of public policy issues. Currently, Mr. Luecke is on the boards of the University of Wyoming Ruckelshaus Institute, the Natural Resources Law Center (University of Colorado School of Law), the Wirth Chair of the University of Colorado at Denver, and High Country News Foundation. He is also past-president of the Board of the Colorado Conservation Fund. For the past twenty-five years, he has been engaged in issues dealing with the scientific aspects of water, energy, and land use cases in the Rocky Mountain region, including serving as Senior Staff Scientist and Director of the Rocky Mountain regional office of the Environmental Defense Fund. Prior to that, he was a senior environmental engineer for Meta Systems. He holds an engineering degree from the University of Notre Dame and a Ph.D. in Hydrology and Environmental Engineering from Harvard University.