Since 2003 Todd Lopez has been practicing as a natural resource, water rights, and environmental attorney. He has more than two decades of experience in nonprofit management and is currently at the helm of Rio GrandeReturn, which uses a minimally invasive approach in riverscape restoration, post-fire restoration, and urban habitat restoration. The organization’s diverse projects have included willow and cottonwood planting along the Santa Fe River, regrading slopes at the Conservation Homestead in the Galisteo Basin Preserve, and construction of beaver dam analogs along San Antonio Creek within the Valles Caldera National Preserve.

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