Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
Classification
Conservative
File
0004
Opened
Tenured 1998. Confirmed by the Watch, 2016.
Evidentiary grade
Circumstantial
Threat score
0.2 / 100
Field office
Hyde Park, Chicago
Last observed
2025-10-19
Standing
On the criteria published in the Methodology, this confirmation does not stand. The criteria are under review.
Summary
Subject 0004 is a large-animal veterinarian and the only member of the monitored population who has written to this organization. The letter arrived in March 2022, on clinic letterhead. It does not object to being monitored and does not ask to be removed from the list. It corrects the date this organization has published for the 2016 state board hearing, which the annual report gives as 21 September and which was held on the 22nd, and encloses the transcript page.
The letter was circulated to all directorates. The correction was made in the following edition. The error stands uncorrected in the six editions that preceded it.
Field Operations has visited the subject’s counties on eleven occasions and has, on each, been offered coffee by someone. No contact has been made. On the eleventh occasion an analyst helped move a gate, which was reviewed and found to be within policy.
Basis for classification
A three-minute comment at a 2016 state board hearing, objecting to a proposed increase in brand inspection fees on the grounds that the fee did not pay for anything the ranchers could identify. The Directorate of Sightings confirmed him within the week. He has said nothing political before or since.
Circumstantial — Based on observed conduct; no attributable statement is on file.
Statement of the subject
In 2022 the subject wrote to this organization, unprompted, having learned that a file existed. The letter is four paragraphs long and does not address his politics. It corrects the date the annual report gives for the 2016 hearing, and encloses the relevant transcript page.
Field record
Discipline
Veterinary Medicine. Large animal, principally cattle. Herd health, brand inspection, and the economics of both.
Primary location
A teaching hospital and, for four months of the year, a truck between Fort Collins and the eastern plains.
Observed locations
Larimer, Weld, Logan and Yuma counties; Denver, 2021.
Status
Tenured. Full professor. Section chief, large animal.
Pattern of life
Rounds at 05:40. Clinic. On call every third weekend, which he has never traded away.
Identification
Work coveralls and hat.
Recorded statement
"That fee does not pay for anything."
Known associates
No relevant association identified among current students.
Capabilities
One three-minute comment at a state board hearing, transcribed. One letter to this organization.
Intent
Assessed as "to get back to the clinic."
Signature
Laissez-faire, moderate confidence. Conservative, not established.
Observations
2016-09-22 11:04
State board hearing, Denver. Subject spoke for three minutes regarding brand inspection fees. Transcript obtained. Confirmed 2016-09-26.
2019-04-02
Confirmation flagged for review against the published criteria. Review remains open.
2022-03-14
Letter received from subject. Corrects the published date of the 2016 hearing. Transcript page enclosed. Circulated to all directorates.
2023-01-15
Correction applied to the annual report. Prior editions not amended.
2025-10-19 06:30
Field Operations, Logan County. Analyst assisted with a gate. Reviewed. Within policy.