Tim Bohling
Chair of the Board
Tim is a water quality supervisor with the City of Loveland, Department of Water and Power, and the monitoring program manager for the City of Loveland’s source water programs. These programs include general water quality sampling and evaluation of the Big Thompson River and Green Ridge Glade Reservoir, as well as preparation for the effects of a forest fire on the watershed and on process treatment. Tim has managed numerous source water and treatment projects, including the design and construction of a continuous water quality monitoring and flood warning system for the Big Thompson River and the implementation of algal mitigation solutions for Green Ridge Glade Reservoir. Recently, he was awarded the RMWQAA 2016 analyst of the year award. Tim received his BS degrees in biology and chemistry, with a concentration in environmental ecology, from Colorado State University. He lives in Loveland with his wife and enjoys backpacking and being outdoors.
Richard Thorp
Vice-Chair of the Board
Richard has been a surface water quality professional for more than 12 years. His career includes working as a research laboratory manager at Colorado State University (CSU), as an environmental consultant, and for state surface water quality regulatory agencies in North Carolina and Wyoming. In 2017, Richard joined the City of Fort Collins Utilities Department after working for nearly 10 years as the Surface Water Quality Assessment Program Coordinator for the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. He moved to Fort Collins in 1997 to attend CSU, where he earned a BS degree in fishery biology in 2001 and a MS degree in entomology in 2006. Richard lives in Loveland with his wife Emily and their daughter Natalie. He enjoys spending time with his family and friends, toiling away on home renovations, xeric gardening, and fly fishing and tying.
Ed Young
Secretary
Ed is a founding director of the Big Thompson Watershed Forum. He served as the City of Greeley’s representative on the Board beginning in 1997 and as Chair from 2008-2010. Ed graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 1970 with a BA in biology and worked in the field of water treatment during his entire career. After 35 years with the City of Greeley as the Plant Superintendent of Boyd Lake WTP, he retired in November 2016. Since 1978 Ed and wife, Deb, have resided in Loveland, where they raised two sons and now enjoy four grandchildren.
David M. Jessup
David is co-owner of Sylvan Dale Ranch, a 3,200-acre working dude ranch in Loveland that raises grass-fed beef for local consumption. His passions are preserving open space, battling invasive weeds, catching wild river trout on a fly, singing cowboy songs, and telling stories about the American West—some of them true. David worked to place two-thirds of the Sylvan Dale’s ranch lands, some 1,600 acres, under permanent conservation easements. His dream is to build a sustainable, grass-fed cattle operation that restores health and diversity to the foothills ecosystem. David is a member of the Colorado and Loveland Historical Societies, the Oregon-California Trail Association, and the Downtown Loveland Association. He also serves on the Board of Embrace Northern Colorado, a regional organization seeking to develop choices about quality future growth. He has contributed chapters to two non-fiction books and is active with the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and Northern Colorado Writers. David earned a BA degree in biology at the University of Colorado and a MA degree in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He and his wife Linda raised four children and enjoy exploring fresh worlds with their two grandchildren.
Randy Mitchell
Randy has worked for the City of Greeley in several capacities since 1985. He spent his first nine years working in the City’s distribution system, and for the past 23 years he has worked as an Operator at both of Greeley’s water treatment plants, Bellevue and Boyd Lake. In 2014, he was promoted to Plant Superintendent at the Boyd Lake facility in Loveland. Randy is certified through the State of Colorado in water treatment and currently holds an “A” certification. A Colorado native, he enjoys fishing in the Big Thompson River.
Charles Olmsted, PhD
Charles retired from the University of Northern Colorado after 26 years of directing the Environmental Studies Program and teaching courses that focused on how humans interact with and depend on the natural world for their long-term welfare. He received his undergraduate degree in biology from Earlham College, his MS in physiological plant ecology from the University of Oklahoma, and his PhD in ecosystem ecology from the University of Colorado. Charles has a long history of involvement with conservation work and environmental education and has served on the Boards of Directors of the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education, the Colorado Wildlife Federation, the High Plains Environmental Center at Centerra, the Colorado Native Plant Society, Defenders of Wildlife, and the National Wildlife Federation. His involvement with the Big Thompson watershed and its resources spans a variety of uses and locations, including directing research on wildlife and tourism impacts in Rocky Mountain National Park. He and his family constructed a passive solar house near the confluence of the Big Thompson and South Platte Rivers.
Keith Stagg
Keith is a Natural Resources Specialist with Northern Water, where he addresses watershed issues that affect the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Keith has worked on freshwater and forestry issues throughout the West since 2005. Prior to joining Northern Water, he managed projects related to forest management planning, river restoration, and flood recovery for the City of Longmont. Keith has a Master of Environmental Science degree from the Yale School of Forestry and a BA from Whitman College. He lives in Boulder with his wife and newborn daughter, where he is an active mountain biker and occasional fly fisherman.
