Dan Dagget, environmentalist and author, literally wrote the book on the subject of applying collaborative solutions to Western ecosystems, Dagget’s book, Beyond The Rangeland Conflict—Toward a West That Works, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and has been described as one of the most important books on the contemporary West. In 1992 Dagget was honored as one of the top one hundred grass roots environmental activists in America by the Sierra Club for its centennial celebration. He has given more than a hundred talks around the West on the outstanding results that environmentalists and ranchers achieve when they apply a results-based approach and work together.

Norm Lowe is president and jack-of-all-trades of the Diablo Trust, a collaborative group that has been designated a government reinvention lab for the work it is doing with two ranches near Flagstaff, Arizona, encompassing 426,000 acres of land. Norm has a B.S. in Range Management and has had range management planning and monitoring experience with the Forest Service, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. He is the current Range Program supervisor for the Navajo New Lands project in Arizona and has served as education chairman for both the Arizona and International Society of Range Management.

Gail Lowe has a B.A. in Anthropology and a Masters of International Management. She is a member of the Arizona Society of CPAs, the Greater Flagstaff Economic Council and the Diablo Trust. Gail services over 100 clients in various industries. She was financial/business manager of Tucson Downtown Development Corporation (a private non-profit corporation) along with four other for-profit firms.