Dave Erickson has been the Department's wildlife division chief since 2002. He participates on the MoBCI Steering Committee for the Department, and he believes birds are a wonderful vehicle for conservation because they excite the passions of our citizens and live in all the habitats of our diverse state.
Brian Loges is a wildlife management biologist in the St. Louis Region. He enjoys the challenge of restoring habitats that attract a wide variety of wildlife and diverse public use to Conservation Areas. When not busy chasing down three young conservationists, he enjoys hunting anything with feathers.
Benny Pryor is a native of northwest Missouri. He began his career with the Conservation Department's Wildlife Division in 1987, and in 1989 he joined the Protection Division as a conservation agent. He has been district supervisor of agents covering Macon, Monroe, Randolph and Shelby counties since 1997.
Tom Skinner has been a conservation agent since 1985. Assigned to Macon County, he has worked the Lolli Bros. Exotic and Alternative Wildlife Sales for the past 21 years. He has also worked captive wildlife cases throughout Missouri and other states and taught captive wildlife issues to agent trainees.
David Urich is the Wildlife Division’s Ozark unit chief and a 27-year employee with the Conservation Department. He lives on a 40-acre farm in Moniteau County where he and his wife, Jennifer, raised three sons. Rabbit hunting with beagles and basset hounds and fishing are among his many hobbies.
Lynn Youngblood has been a nature center manager for over 18 years; over 16 of these have been at Burr Oak Woods. She started the Volunteer Naturalist program there in 1990. Lynn enjoys working with volunteers and is currently starting a new Missouri Master Naturalist chapter.
