Meeet Our Contributors

Jun. 2003 - Vol. 64, No. 6

contributor Eric R. Eaton is a freelance natural history writer residing in Tucson, Arizona. He is co-author of the forthcoming Kaufman Focus Guide to the Insects of North America. He says he finds the world of insects and spiders to be a limitless source of fascination and wonder.
contributor Conservation Department biologist Jeff Finley is in charge of the Show-me Missouri Fish mobile aquarium. He loves fishing, hunting small game and frogging. Jeff, his wife Anna and three children live in a log home they built near Hartsburg. When not on the road with the mobile aquarium, Jeff says he can be found with his kids on the Missouri river in search of the next state record flathead catfish.
contributor Bryan Hendricks is the Conservationist's managing editor. After writing the article about Damascus knives, he said he will never look at knives in the same light again. It also heightened his appreciation for the craftsmen who are working to revive this ancient art.
contributor Jim Low, the Conservation Department news services coordinator, spends as much time as possible on the Missouri River, hunting, fishing, birdwatching, combing sand bars for arrowheads and fossils and just soaking in the grandeur of North America's greatest river.