Doug arrived in Summit County in 1974. As a college student he worked on the initial phase of the Henderson Mill site. The Dercum family allowed Doug to live on Cataract Creek Ranch in exchange for work on the cabin. That work turned into a 35-year project, as Doug and his wife acquired the ranch via 8 different parcels. In 2020, Doug was instrumental in assembling a public-private partnership with Summit County and Flanigan Land and Cattle to preserve the adjacent 1100 acres of the Knorr property, along the west side of Green Mountain Reservoir. This was the third conservation easement that Doug and his family signed with Colorado Cattleman’s Agricultural Land Trust to preserve the Cataract Creek Valley, just as Doug first experienced it over 50 years ago.
Doug is a petroleum geologist and spent his career developing both international and domestic oil and gas projects. He was featured in Fortune magazine after selling his first company, Leed Petroleum in 1987, and continues to own several oil and gas companies. He is the past President of the Board of Graland County Day School, and Past President of the Titanium Homeowners Association.