Fred Phillips is president and owner of Fred Phillips Consulting, LLC, an ecosystem restoration firm based in Flagstaff, Arizona. The firm's projects include multidisciplinary wetland/aquatic/riparian restoration, commercial and residential landscape design, natural resource planning, and fundraising/eco-business development projects for Native American Tribes, nonprofit organizations and public and private agencies. Philips has over 18 years of experience doing ecosystem restoration, land planning, fundraising and landscape architecture in the southwestern United States. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Landscape Architecture in 1995 from Purdue University. As a student at Purdue, he began work on his original planning of the 1,042-acre Ahakhav Tribal Preserve on the Colorado River Indian Reservation (CRIT), where he served as project director from 1994-1999. During these years he successfully raised over $4 million in grants and restored over two miles of river channel, wetlands and native forests. He also established a native plant nursery, environmental education program, and canoe outfitter for the CRIT Tribe.