Meeet Our Contributors

Mar. 2003 - Vol. 64, No. 3

contributor Cynthia Andre is a freelance writer and psychologist, who lives with her husband, three dogs, three cats and one chicken on Bull Creek in the Ozarks. In her spare time she hikes and enjoys the ferns in the Mark Twain National Forest near her home.
contributor Jennifer Bove' a biologist from Columbia, has worked in the wilds of Missouri, Montana and Washington. She and her husband, Chris, enjoy raising Rita, their kid conservationist, wherever they find clean air and clear water. Currently, Jennifer spends her spare time finishing a book of short stories based on her experiences in the field.
contributor Research biologist Rick Clawson has worked for the Conservation Department since 1977. He has focused his research on forest songbirds and endangered bats.He enjoys hunting and fishing and likes watching wildlife around his Callaway County home. He plants food plots for deer and turkey and sets out seeds, suet, and nectar for birds and hummingbirds.
contributor Jim Low is the Conservation Department's print news services coordinator. His resume includes college degrees in wildlife management and journalism, work as a reporter for the West Plains Daily Quill, public information work for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and a stint as editor of several hunting-and-fishing magazines. He and his wife, Diane, live on a few wooded acres near Jefferson City.
contributor Joel Vance, retired Conservation Department news writer, is the author of Down Home Missouri (When Basketball Was King and Girls Were Scary). Throughout his career and retirement he has written many articles for the Conservationist and other magazines. He is a former president of the 2,000 member Outdoor Writers Association of America.