As the condor begins to go where no condor has gone in decades, developers, environmentalists and government biologists have formed a task force and are scrambling to meld conservation science with a Silicon Valley-style technological solution to wind and wildlife.
He's senior advisor on international conservation for the Canadian government, a member of the United Nations task force on environmental sustainability, and chair of the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC).
But Kansas' struggle to fill an estimated $340 million budget gap has stalled progress on the task force recommendation that the state find money to implement water conservation plans.
Most recently, Caballero has served as a member of the governor's task force on the drought and has traveled the state to discuss water conservation ideas with local officials.
The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, formed in 1977 by David Packard, a co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, created an energy task force, with 35 member companies, to protect the industry's interests and discuss conservation methods.
"He was ahead of his time and very progressive," said Jack Clarke, who was appointed to an ocean management task force by Mr. Romney and now directs public policy at Mass Audubon, a conservation group.
Mr. Cheney, who headed the task force that wrote the policy, has said that increased energy production must take precedence over conservation.
This spring, she led the task force that helped New York snag a $1.5 billion, 15-year Congressional appropriation from the underused Federal Land and Water Conservation Fund for future parks and recreation grants.
