Danny Brown is a fisheries management biologist with the Conservation Department in the St. Louis Region. He enjoys playing bluegrass guitar, riding his Harley, duck hunting on the Missouri River and reading. He lives on a farm in Union with his wife, Joyce, four chickens and a cat named Sammie.
Robert N. Chapman is a wildlife management biologist in the Ozark Region. His professional interests include researching the response of plant communities and wildlife populations to fire. Rob enjoys hunting, fishing, canoeing and spending time with family and friends.
Dave Hamilton is a resource scientist with the Conservation Department in Columbia. He studies a variety of wildlife, some of which have made tremendous comebacks, including river otters, bobcats and black bears. He enjoys hunting with his wife, Sue, and family at their cabin in northern Missouri.
Ann Koenig lives in Columbia with her husband and two young sons. She has worked as a Conservation Department forester for eight years. Granddaughter of a stave mill owner, great niece of a WWII-era MDC naturalist, and daughter-in-law to owners of a Century Farm, she has strong ties to conservation.
Rhonda L. Rimer has been the natural history biologist for the Ozark Region since 1999. Prior to settling in and falling in love with the Missouri Ozarks, she worked as an ecologist throughout the desert Southwest and in Arkansas. Rhonda loves backpacking, bicycling, and using dogs to hunt for quail and rabbit.
