Greg Walcher

Greg Walcher is a fourth generation Western Slope native, now one of the country’s most respected writers and leaders of natural resources policy. He headed the respected intergovernmental association of Club 20 for over a decade, and spent two terms in Washington working for Senator Bill Armstrong. He led the Colorado Department of Natural Resources as a cabinet officer for Gov. Bill Owens, and is now president of the Natural Resources Group, a consulting firm. He is the author of Smoking Them Out: The Theft of the Environment and How to Take it Back, now in its second printing. He also writes a weekly newspaper column on western natural resources issues and is a popular speaker at conferences across the nation.