Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource Service Highlights

• Served as chairman and spokesperson in 1988-89 to draft a conservation and natural resource agenda for President George H. W. Bush’s administration, an initiative that became the foundation for a subsequent agenda drafted for each successive president thereafter.
• Founder, Vice Chairman, Board of Directors that established the National Conservation Leadership Institute in 2006, an advanced leadership-training school for mid-career state and federal fish and wildlife agency professionals (primarily biologists and scientists) across the United States in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, to prepare them for leadership and management positions emphasizing adaptive management skills. Over 500 “Fellows” have graduated as of 2019, now in its 13^th year.
• Principal spearhead and spokesperson for 50+ national conservation organizations that facilitated acquisition of Theodore Roosevelt's 23,550 acre Elkhorn Ranch, Medora, ND into Federal government ownership, 2003-2007, which virtually expanded the Theodore Roosevelt National Park by 33.5%. This ranch is where conservation was conceived by Theodore Roosevelt in 1884-87, and is popularly called the “Cradle of Conservation” and the "Walden Pond of the American West".
• Member of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Threatened and Endangered Species Policy Committee, 2005 to date, and their Legal Committee Working Group, 2000 to date.
• One of the core founders of the American Wildlife Conservation Partners (AWCP) in 2000, which is a confederation of the 53 leading wildlife conservation organizations in America. Policy positions, sign-on letters, providing committee testimony and promoting legislation in the Congress is the role maintained by the AWCP.
• Member of the Conservation Leadership Council (sponsored by EDF), a 12 member body committed to research and the promotion of market based ecosystem services through academic research, policy development and white papers.
• Member of the Roosevelt Conservation Leaders Roundtable, led by Simon Roosevelt, a group of national conservation organization leaders dedicated to finding collaborative bipartisan solutions to major contemporary wildlife challenges.
• Member of the President’s Council, National Wildlife Federation, 2013 to date.
• Member of the United States Forest Service (USDA) Steering Committee, organizing and producing the 100-year centennial celebration and seminar series commemorating creation of the U.S. Forest Service, January 3-5, 2005.
• Delegate at the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation, St. Louis, MO, August 29-31, 2005, pursuant to Presidential Executive Order No. 13352.
• Delegate at the White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy, Reno, NV, October 1-3, 2008, pursuant to Presidential Executive Order No. 13443.
• Secured the preservation and transfer (1977 to 1984) of the National Collection of Heads and Horns established by Wm. T. Hornaday in 1906 from the American Museum of Natural History and the New York Zoological Society, New York, NY, to a permanent museum display at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, WY; collection moved to the Bass Pro Wonders of Wildlife Museum in Springfield, MO during 2016.
• Core Founder of  The Wild Sheep Foundation (WSF), the only organization in the world that focuses on the health and propagation of indigenous wild sheep, funding in excess of $2.4 million annually for habitat improvements.
  • Became 14^th of 20 Charter Founders in 1974 and remained fully engaged for 12 years, 1974 to 1985, in all aspects of FNAWS operations and projects, growing the Foundation to a membership of 5,000+.
  • Served as member of Board of Directors, 1974 to 1985, legal counsel 1974 to 1975, vice president 1981 to 1983, Chair of Headquarters Selection and Relocation Committee 1979 to 1981, and National Convention Chairman 1978 to 1981.
  • Presented the Outstanding Achievement Award in 1979.
  • Major projects during involvement with WSF included developing natural water holes in the arid terrain of Arizona and Mexico; establishing a rapid response triage team of veterinarians to address outbreaks of disease including pink eye, lung worm, etc.; transplanting surplus sheep populations into historic habitats; providing equipment for the Mexican government to equip their game wardens to prevent poaching, and providing technical support to train the wardens; multiple habitat restoration projects.
• Between 1968 and 1980, completed over 20 expeditions throughout Alaska, Canada and Mexico surveying the habitat and populations of the four species of sheep on the North American continent.
• In 1982 trekked across the Gobi Desert and into the southern Altai Mountains with Mongolia's Department of Agriculture (Zhuulchin) surveying wild sheep as part of developing a wildlife management program. Secondary trek was made to explore the legendary city of Shang-du (a/k/a Xanadu), the capital of the Mongol Empire and home of the 13^th century Kublai Kahn, the eastern terminus of Marco Polo’s journey (1275-92).
• In 1984, trekked into the USSR Republic of Azerbaijan surveying the Dagestan Tur population as part of developing a wildlife management program.
• In 1988 led the inaugural expedition trekking into the Pamir Mountains of the USSR’s Tajikistan Republic surveying the Marco Polo (Ovis Poli) sheep population to develop a wildlife management program. First western trek into the Pamirs since Theodore, Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt's expedition in 1925.
• Elected to Membership in 1980 in the Boone and Crockett Club, America’s oldest wildlife conservation organization, founded in 1887 by Theodore Roosevelt which developed the cornerstones of the American conservation movement.
  • President, 2008 to 2010; President Emeritus, 2011 to present; Elected to Honorary Life Membership in 2016
  • Founder of a select committee that in 1984 established and endowed the Boone and Crockett Wildlife Conservation and Natural Resource postgraduate program at the University of Montana,Missoula, MT, and thereafter at Texas A&M, College Station, TX, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, and Michigan State University, Lansing, MI.
  • Served as member from 1982 to 1984 of a select committee that in 1985 chose the location for, purchased, and established the 6,000-acre Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch and Research Station in Dupuyer, MT, as an adjunct property to support the University of Montana postgraduate program, and which now includes the Elmer E. Rasmuson Conservation Education Center created in 2000 to host an extensive wildlife conservation and natural resource summer orientation program for high school teachers, several children’s conservation orientation camps, and base camp for the Boy Scouts of America high adventure program in the adjacent Bob Marshall Wilderness.

Business Career Highlights  — Professional Experience

President, Baier Properties, Inc., Bethesda, MD, since 1967 designed, developed, and constructed more than 25 commercial real-estate development projects consisting of over a million square feet of residential/retail/office/industrial space

Vice President, Member of Board of Directors, Mortgage Banker, Development Analyst, Walker & Dunlop, Inc., Washington, DC, 1969 to 1978

Associate House Counsel, Mortgage Banker, Development Analyst, James W. Rouse & Company, Inc., Washington, DC, and Baltimore, MD, 1966 to 1969