The People Behind Forever Our Rivers
We founded this foundation because we are passionate about rivers and preservation. Forever Our Rivers provides us with an opportunity to combine those passions to make a positive difference in the world.

Tim Carlson
Board President and Secretary
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Tim is an environmental engineer with more than 40 years of experience. His career spans the range of restoration including soil, ground and surface waters, and riparian lands throughout the West. His work has focused on developing reasonable and rational solutions to environmental problems that were considered intransigent by many. Recently retired, he spent the previous 20 years working or consulting with nonprofits serving as president, executive director, research director, and consultant. This included founding the Tamarisk Coalition (now known as RiversEdge West) and consulting to the Walton Family Foundation. Typical activities provided to these nonprofits was guidance to numerous watershed partnerships in the Colorado River Basin to improve riparian habitat and river health, as well as researching and crafting innovative sustainable funding mechanisms for river conservation. These experiences led to the formation of Forever Our Rivers Foundation to address the complex issue of sustainable funding that focused on an innovative approach that wasn’t tied to traditional funding approaches.

Terry D. Harper
Board Vice President
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Donna D’Angelo Morrall
Board Treasurer
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Steve Ayers
Board Director
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Chip Norton
Board Director
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Jim Francis
Board Director
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Rob White
Board Director
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Rob has over 30 years of financial expertise in non-profit finance. After receiving his MBA from Harvard, he worked in his family’s construction materials business in Ogden, Utah. While there he became involved in saving a historic movie theater and eventually became a board member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, based in Washington, DC. At the National Trust he served as chair of both the finance and endowment committees. In 2000 he co-founded National Trust Community Investment Corporation (NTCIC), a for-profit subsidiary of the National Trust to invest in projects nation-wide using the historic tax credit. He was board chair of NTCIC until 2012. In 2007 he was a founding board member of the Conservation Lands Foundation (CLF) which provides advocacy, training, and funding to a grass-roots network of conservation groups in the western US who advocate for iconic Bureau of Land Management conservation lands. He served as finance chair for CLF from 2007 to 2019. During his tenure at CLF he came into contact with many of the wonderful friends groups around the west and got to know the folks who have founded Forever Our Rivers. He is a long-term river rat and back country skier.

Joe Neuhof
Executive Director
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Clark Tate
Associate
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Clark Tate is a freelance writer, researcher, and nonprofit consultant. While earning an M.A. in Environmental Science and Land Use policy at the University of Virginia, she guided rafts on the New River Gorge and whitewater kayaked for fun. After moving to Colorado, she guided on the Arkansas and Blue Rivers, and Clear Creek before joining the Tamarisk Coalition, now River’s Edge West, as a restoration ecologist and coordinator. While there, she rafted a slew of desert river stretches, including Cataract Canyon and the Grand, led efforts to found the Dolores River Restoration Partnership, and researched sustainable restoration funding mechanisms. Clark then moved to California to surf, sail and pursue writing. She stayed close to rivers by monitoring water quality as a volunteer in Santa Cruz, CA and as a seasonal ranger in Point Reyes National Park. Clark most recently worked as a Senior Editor at Outdoor Gear Lab.

Stacy Beaugh
Associate
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Stacy Beaugh, President of Strategic By Nature, Inc., has been a leader in natural resource and outdoor recreation initiatives for 15 years, most recently as Executive Director of RiversEdge West (formerly Tamarisk Coalition). Her educational portfolio includes a Master’s in Public Administration from University of Colorado Denver and a Bachelors of Art in art and environmental studies from Illinois Wesleyan University. She is also an alum of the Center for Creative Leadership Nonprofit Executive Leadership Program. Her current career focus/expertise is in the areas of strategic planning, meeting/process facilitation, executive coaching, board/leadership development, and marketing and fundraising, which have positioned her to play a role in supporting the start-up activities of Forever Our Rivers Foundation. Her volunteer experience includes a leadership role on the Colorado Riverfront Commission and Treasurer of Many Rivers Brewing Public Benefit Corporation. She is currently based in Durango, CO.

Illene Roggensack
Associate
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Illene has more than three decades’ experience as a nonprofit executive director, fundraiser, board member, volunteer and consultant. This experience is coupled with an MBA, a BA in journalism and recognition as a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE). Her life’s work lies in helping build organizations of excellence, particularly among grassroots nonprofits.
As an active volunteer, Illene served two years as President for the Colorado Nonprofit Association, one year as President for the Grand Junction Lions Club, and in recent years has help to found four Giving Club and Guys’ Giving Club organizations in both Grand Junction and Montrose, Colorado. She likes to run and cook/bake – a fortunate combination – and has rafted Cataract Canyon on the Colorado River at 96,000 cfs. Her current challenge is learning to play the ukulele.
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