Meeet Our Contributors

Jun. 2002 - Vol. 63, No. 6

contributor image Shawn Banks is a fisheries management biologist in Chillicothe. He's been with the Department for nearly two years.
contributor image David Ashley is a professor of biology at Missouri Western State College. He specializes in parasitology.
contributor image Tom Cwynar is the editor of the Conservationist. He hails from Michigan, but has lived in Missouri long enough to have enjoyed fishing most of our major reservoirs from what he calls, "The Little Yellow Boat That Could." Before coming to the Conservation Department, he edited several outdoor magazines and worked as a newspaper reporter.
contributor image Steve Eder is a fisheries field operations chief for the Conservation Department. While working in northwest Missouri on small public and private lakes, he developed an interest in pursuing big bluegills. Now located in Jefferson City, he enjoys fishing with his family and friends for bluegill in small lakes, catfish in the Missouri River and smallmouth bass in Ozark streams.
contributor image Biologist Jeff Finley is in charge of the Show-Me Missouri Fish mobile aquarium. He is an avid angler and loves hunting small game and frogging. Jeff, his wife, Anna, and their three children live in a log home they built in Hartsburg. When not traveling with the mobile aquarium, Jeff can be found with his kids on the Missouri River in search of the next state-record flathead catfish.
contributor image A graduate of Purdue University, Phil Sneed is a resource forester based in Chillicothe. He has worked for the Department for six years in both the Ozarks and north Missouri. He enjoys mountain biking and fishing.
contributor image An ardent fly tier, Mark Van Patten is the statewide Stream Team Coordinator for the Conservation Department.
contributor image Bob Schulz has been with the Conservation Department for nine years and is the Stream Team coordinator for the Ozark Unit.