Meet Our Contributors

Nov. 2001 - Vol. 62, No. 11

	Tom Cwynar has worked in the Conservation Department's Outreach and Education Division for over 10 years. He has written for many outdoor publications and served as the outdoors editor for a Michigan newspaper and as editor of a national bowhunting magazine. He now lives in Jefferson City and is editor of the Conservationist.
	Freelance outdoor writer Mark Goodwin lives in Jackson and teaches biology at Jackson Senior High School. He enjoys a wide variety of outdoor recreation and spends the bulk of his free time with family and friends in the Missouri Ozarks.
	Greg Gremaud is a natural history regional biologist in the Conservation Department's northeast region. He has been employed by the Conservation Department since 1984. Greg's special interests include botanizing, birding and restoring native habitats. Greg, his wife, Janet, and their three children live on a farm outside of Kirksville.
	A. J. Hendershott is a Conservation Department Regional Supervisor in Outreach and Education. He lives in Cape Girardeau County with his wife and two children. A.J. visits swamps to fish, hunt, birdwatch, hike, and look for reptiles. He spends his spare time recreating ancient spear throwers and drawing.
	Mitch Jayne lives in Eminence. He and his illustrator wife, Diana, recently published a book of Ozark humor title, "Home Grown Stories and Home Fried Lies." He says the book encouraged them to return to the Ozarks "to live again with the folks I write about. The back porch view of five mountain ridges tells me I'm home at last."
	Larry Rizzo is a natural history biologist with the Conservation Department. He enjoys ecological restoration work, especially when it takes place in the unlikely realm of a large city. In his spare time, Larry's outdoor interests include canoeing, hunting, fishing and birding. A native Kansas Citian, he still lives near that city with his wife, Kathleen.

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