Conservation Curriculum Vitae

Founding Member and Secretary, Missouri Hunters for Fair Chase — 2017‑2020

Administrator, Conservation Federation of Missouri Legislative Action Center — 2017‑2020

Webmaster and editor, NoMoCWD.org, — 2013‑Present

Webmaster and editor, KillerNoms.com, — 2013‑Present

Conservation Communicator of the Year, Conservation Federation of Missouri, — 2011

Member, Missouri Outdoor Communicators, — 2011‑Present

Conservation Editor, Outdoor Guide Magazine, — 1996‑Present

Board of Directors member, Missourians for Personal Safety — 1998‑Present
(MPS is an umbrella group of Missouri grassroots gun rights groups including Western Missouri Shooters Alliance (WMSA), Gateway Civil Liberties Alliance (GCLA), and Missouri Sport Shooting Assn (MSSA),

Vice‑Chairman, "Otter Trapping Defense Committee" — 2000‑2001
(A joint committee of the CFM and the Missouri Dept. of Conservation formed to research methods of defending against potential ballot measures targeting Otter trapping when the Humane Society of the United States announced plans to promote such measures in Missouri. The efforts of this committee are believed to have played a significant role in convincing them to move on to easier targets.)

Co‑host, "Outdoor Guide Radio Show" — Weekly hour-long hunting/fishing radio show on KTRS‑550, the strongest daytime signal in the St. Louis market — 1995-2000

Volunteer Missouri Hunter Education Instructor — 1990‑2000

Vice‑Chairman, Blue Ribbon Panel on Wild Turkey Management — 1999
(Panel appointed by MDC Director Jerry Presley to review Missouri's wild turkey management plan and propose future direction.)

President, "St. Louis Longbeards" Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation — 1995‑1998

Member, Ways & Means Committee, Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM) — 1998‑2001

Chairman, "Hunter Safety, Sportsmans Rights & Firearms" Committee, Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM) — 1996‑2001

Chairman, Archery Committee, Conservation Federation of Missouri (CFM) — 1993‑1995

Organizer, Missouri "Share The Harvest" Pilot Program, St. Louis Longbeards — 1992

Graduate, Bowhunter Defense Workshop (public relations and lobbying training), Wildlife Legislative Fund of America (now US Sportsmans Alliance) — 1991

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I was raised in Newark California, an east-bay suburb of San Francisco. My Dad, brother and I fished for cod in the ocean, catfish in the delta, sturgeon and striped bass in the bay, salmon in the Sacramento River, and hunted ducks and pheasants over golden retrievers throughout the central valley and Northen California.

After a few years service as a cold-warrior in the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), a random series of events landed me in Missouri in 1981. My adopted home state fit me like a glove.  I bought and trained a golden (Josie), and joyously returned to hunting.  Once I added deer and turkey to the mix and got involved in conservation activism, it ballooned into a huge part of my life.

In recent years Jane and I bought a 400-acre farm near Moberly Missouri, on which we hunt deer and turkey, and grow hay and soybeans. I even dabbled in raising grassfed heirloom breed (Scottish Highland) cattle for a few years.