Wayne Hunsperger focuses his practice in the fields of eminent domain, environmentally impaired properties and other complex real estate appraisal issues such as developing methodologies for solving problems. Examples of these types of assignments include: Valuation of high amenity natural land located in both a national park and a native american tribal reservation. Estimating property damages on Honolulu Harbor due to a contaminated tank farm facility. Condemnation by the federal government of contaminated real estate. Tasked under GSA IQ contract, Hunsperger & Weston, Ltd. will prepare the appraisal to convey, under statutory direction, approximately 813 acres from the U.S. Army to Commerce City, Colorado, for future construction of a visitors center at the emerging Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Developed and executed multi-disciplinary estimate of damages around the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons facility. In concert with an environmental attorney, developed valuation methodology to be used in Colorado for estimating loss of use and enjoyment, environmental damages and post remediation stigma. Methodology was upheld in an unpublished decision by the Colorado Supreme Court. Met with scientists in Costa Rica to provide input on a damages model that could be used in a banana company case involving illegal destruction of first generation rain forest. A list of Mr. Hunsperger’s publications may be found on Page 2 of his curriculum vitae (CV). Recently, Mr. Hunsperger contributed a chapter to the monograph Risk, Media and Stigma (Earthscan, London). The chapter relates to real estate stigma; the publication was funded in part through grants from the University of Pennsylvania and National Science Foundation. Also, Mr. Hunsperger published a treatise on eminent domain issues to be used in a Continuing Legal Education seminar. Mr. Hunsperger has presented a paper to appraisers and officials of the General Services Administration in Hyannis, Massachusetts. The GSA then asked for and received permission to use Hunsperger’s lecture notes as a basis for their manual on methodologies for appraising contaminated property. Subsequently, the firm contracted with the General Services Administration to provide environmental appraisal and consulting services. Virtually all publications cited on the CV address development of methodologies useful in problem-solving. In this regard, papers were published in English and in Spanish for use by various non-governmental organizations and government officials in both Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The Spanish version of the Costa Rica publication is on file at the University of Costa Rica. A list of Mr. Hunsperger’s seminars, lectures and courses presented may be found on Page 1 of his CV. Among others, Mr. Hunsperger has taught for the Appraisal Institute, the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, Continuing Legal Education, interested groups in Latin America, and the General Services Administration. Many of the courses taught relate to previously discussed papers authored by Mr. Hunsperger. Most of those courses related to development of various methodologies. Mark Weston directs the firm’s work in the area of conservation easement valuation. In the past decade, Hunsperger & Weston, Ltd. has completed several hundred appraisal, appraisal review and real estate consulting assignments related to this specialized area. Mr. Weston lectures and teaches frequently on the topic of conservation easements. He developed and co-presented Conservation Easements and Non-Urban Land Use, a full day seminar presented to the Appraisal Institute’s Colorado Chapter in 1998. Mr. Weston regularly addresses Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts, Inc. educational seminars, and has presented the Advanced Topics in Conservation Easement Appraisal sessions at the Land Trust Alliance’s National Land Trust Rallies. In 1999, Mr. Weston co-presented the full-day Conservation Easements presentation to the Colorado Assessor’s 38th Annual Law Seminar in Denver. He also developed the initial appraisal review guidelines for the State Board of the Great Outdoors Colorado Trust Fund (GOCO), the entity with state constitutional authority to distribute moneys within Colorado for acquisition of parks, trails, open space and wildlife habitat. In October, 1999, Governor Bill Owens appointed Mr. Weston (confirmed by Colorado State Senate) to the Colorado Board of Real Estate Appraisers. More recently, Governor Owens appointed Mr. Weston as a Director of the Cherry Creek Basin Water Quality Authority. Mr. Weston specializes in valuation of high amenity natural lands with respect to conservation and preservation issues. As noted on Page 3 of his curriculum vitae, Mr. Weston is and has been active on numerous boards and commissions related primarily to open space matters and voluntary land conservation issues. He has published methodological guidelines on this issue and teaches for a variety of groups at numerous locations. By the very nature of these issues, properties to which conservation easements are applied tend to be rural ranches with high amenity natural attributes.