Mark Goodwin teaches biology at Jackson Senior High School. He spends most of his free time hunting and fishing with friends and family. He says he dove hunts harvested grain fields in Cape Girardeau County and loves to fish Ozark streams.
Eric Kurzejeski lives in Columbia with his wife, Lori, children, Meghan, Jack and Eva, three dogs and a cat. When not serving as the Conservation Department’s outreach programs chief, Eric spends time creating savannas and restoring native grasses on his land.
A native of Jefferson City, Beverly Letchworth is a freelance writer living in St. Louis, where she teaches creative writing at Meramec College. Her book, “Leafbird Days and Firefly Nights: Personal Renewal Through Nature Journaling,” was recently published by Pen Central Press.
Jim Low is the Conservation Department’s print news services coordinator. He saw his first wild otter at the outlet of Ha Ha Tonka Spring at Lake of the Ozarks at sunrise on a snowy January day in 2001.
Sheri Medlock is a naturalist at Burr Oak Woods Conservation Nature Center, but she conducts programs for the deaf and hard of hearing throughout the state. Sheri lives in Lee’s Summit and enjoys backpacking, photography and kayaking.
