The following people were
members of the Citizens Advisory Committee who served at various times
in the last 15 years of the Intervenors Office existence. Several
served more than one term.
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Arlen Christenson, Madison, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin
Law School. Mr. Christenson was Co-Director of the Center for Public
Representation, a public interest law firm, which completed the study entitled,
The Public Intervenor in Wisconsin (1975). He has also published
Public
Advocacy and Environmental Decision Making: The Public Intervenor (1977);
and The Public Intervenor: Another Look (1985). He taught
primarily in the areas of state and local government law and environmental
law.
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Charles Stoddard, Minong, a professional conservationist and resource consultant.
Mr. Stoddard was trained as a forester and land economist. He served
as a resource economist for the United States Forest Service and for Resources
for the Future, Inc. During the 1960s, he served as director of the
planning staff for United States Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall,
and as director of the Bureau of Land Management. During the late
1970s, he held the office of president of the Wilderness Society.
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William D. Beverly, Milwaukee, a registered professional engineer.
He was a district manager for Automatic Switch Company. Mr. Beverly
was a member of the Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society and
past chairman of the John Muir Chapter of the Sierra Club Wild Rivers Committee.
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James B. MacDonald, Madison, a professor at the University of Wisconsin
Law School, specializing in environmental and natural resource law.
In 1975, Mr. MacDonald conducted an investigation of management practices
of the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources at the request of then Governor
Patrick J. Lucey. He also conducted a study of water allocation law
in Japan in 1978.
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Virginia Swanson, Appleton, a member of the Outagamie County Board of Supervisors.
She served as secretary of the Agriculture, Extension Education, and Zoning
Committee, and as county liaison to the Outagamie County Humane Society
Board. Mrs. Swanson was a member of the Appleton Save Downtown Committee,
the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Union of Concerned Scientists,
and was a founding member of the Cousteau Society. As a member of
the League of Women Voters of Appleton, Inc., she served on a local land
use study in 1976 and chaired an energy and consensus study in 1977.
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Charles P. Smith, Madison, the State Treasurer of Wisconsin. He served
on the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands and was chairman of that
Board. Mr. Smith was active in the Western States Land Commissions Association
and was president of the Madison Rivers and Lakes Commission. He
also served as secretary-treasurer of the National Association of State
Treasurers. He was also treasurer of the National Association of
Unclaimed Property Administrators.
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Ronald J. Koshoshek, Eau Claire, an associate professor of philosophy at
the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire and a council member of the University’s
Chippewa River Basin Research Institute. He was national director
of Trout Unlimited in Washington D.C., and a member of the Wisconsin Council
of Trout Unlimited. He also served as president of the Ojibleau Chapter
of Trout Unlimited and as a consultant to townships and zoning boards on
water resource matters. He was president of Marceline Farms, Inc.
in Chippewa Falls. He was a recipient of the Wisconsin Wildlife Association’s
Conservationist of the Year Award (1984), Wisconsin Trout Unlimited’s Gold
Service Award (1985), the Excellence in Public Service Award (1987) from
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, and the Wisconsin Idea Award (1988)
from the Center for Natural Resource Policy, School of Natural Resources,
University of Wisconsin - Madison.
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Rebecca Leighton Katers, Green Bay, was newsletter editor and executive
director of the Clean Water Action Council of Northeastern Wisconsin, Inc.
She majored in biology and environmental studies at the University of Wisconsin
- Green Bay. She was also active with the Northeast Wisconsin Audubon
Society, Brown County Conservation Alliance, and other citizen organizations.
She participated on several technical or citizen advisory committees concerned
with the Fox River/Green Bay and Menominee River Remedial Action Plans,
water quality, contaminated sediments, water quantity, non-point pollution,
wildlife management, and harbor cost-benefits. She also served a
term as Brown County Supervisor and Green Bay City Alderwoman.
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Dale A. Daggett, Ladysmith, was a member of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation
and a diary farmer most of his life. Mr. Daggett was a former town
assessor and member of the Indianhead Association of Assessing Officers.
He served as chairman of the Rusk County Citizen Action Group. He
also was a member of the Wisconsin Wetlands Association and held a state
director post on the Wetlands Task Force in 1981.
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Daniel O. Trainor, Stevens Point, was Dean Emeritus of the College of Natural
Resources, at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. Dean Trainor’s
primary interest was in environmental quality and economic development
via environmental education. He was a faculty member at the University
of Wisconsin (Madison and Stevens Point) since 1960, and his professional
credentials were reflected by more than 140 publications in professional
journals. Dean Trainor was a board member of more than a dozen environmental
and civic organizations. He had been awarded the “Educator of the
Year” award from a variety of environmental organizations.
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Chandler McKelvey, Madison, a management consultant, had served on the
boards of directors of the Wisconsin Coastal Management Council, the Great
Lakes Commission and the Mining Investment and Local Impact Fund.
Mr. McKelvey was a former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Development.
He also headed the division of finance and management in the Department
of Administration, and was with Sentry Insurance Company for 15 years.
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