Who We Are
About Us
Conservation Resource Center
As of February 2024, the nonprofit Conservation Resource Center (CRC) no longer brokers tax credits but it maintains its ongoing and expanded nonprofit educational, research and policy initiatives.
CRC attorneys created Colorado’s tax credit transfer market in 2000 at the request of Colorado landowners and its land conservation community. Now, credit transfers are supported by the private sector in Colorado and nationally.
Our Team
Mike Strugar | Director
Mike is a real estate and land conservation attorney. He received both his Law Degree and his Masters of Natural Resource Management from the University of Michigan. A former partner at the Law Firm of Holmes Roberts & Owen, in 1993 Mike established the Conservation Resource Center. In 2000, he worked to establish the nation’s first exchange for transferring conservation tax credits. Later, he established similar programs in Virginia and New Mexico. Mike has taught at the University of Denver School of Law as Adjunct Professor of Land Conservation Law and speaks at local, state and national land conservation workshops and conferences.
If you have questions or would like Mike to speak at an upcoming conference, contact Mike at 303-818-3952.
Debra Pentz | Co-Director
Debra Pentz co-founded the Conservation Resource Center and was instrumental in CRC’s development of the Tax Credit Exchange in response to requests by landowners and the land conservation community to establish a credit transfer market. She has served at CRC in staff and Board capacities since 1999. Debra received her law degree from the University of Colorado and has worked as Open Space Program Manager for Great Outdoors Colorado, President of the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts (now Keep It Colorado), Program Manager for the City of Boulder Office of Environmental Affairs, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Policy at Fort Lewis College and as an instructor for Boulder Valley Public Schools.
Contact Debra at 303-818-4390.