George Andrejko has been a professional photographer for over 25 years. He spent the last 19 years as the staff photographer for the Arizona Game and Fish Department. George has received national and international recognition for his photographic work. You can find his work on the pages of the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Wildlife Views magazine, which is the state’s official wildlife conservation magazine. You can also view many of his wildlife photos by logging onto the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s website, azgfd.gov.

Biologist Sergio Avila-Villegas attended the University of Aguascalientes,
then University of Baja California for his Master's degree in Arid Lands
Management. Since 1997, Sergio has gained extensive training and experience
working in northwest Mexico on wildlife research and conservation projects
on species like mountain lions, Cactus ferruginous pygmy-owls, California
sea lions, river otters, Santa Catalina rattlesnakes and sea birds. In 2003
he initiated work on jaguar conservation in the Sierra Madre of Sonora where
he monitored the northernmost breeding population of jaguars. At Sky Island
Alliance, Sergio is taking the lead on research and conservation efforts in
northern Mexico, currently filling a critical niche with community outreach
and conservation in places where no information currently exists regarding
the jaguars status.

Jeff has had a lifelong fascination with nature.  His main interests are birds, butterflies, odonates, and beetles.  Jeff has led field trips and education programs for the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson Botanical Gardens, OASIS, Pima County Department of Natural Resources, and the Southeast Arizona Butterfly Association.  Jeff is currently President of the Southeast Arizona Butterfly Association.  Jeff is also owner of Sky Island Tours, an environmental education and natural history tour company.

Rich was born and raised in New York and was smart enough to move to Arizona in 1974, already a seasoned birder and entomologist.  He finished his MS in Entomology from the University of Arizona in 1985.  His publications, in which he is senior author, include Butterflies of Southeastern Arizona (1991), 70 Common Butterflies of the Southwest (1997), and Finding Butterflies in Arizona (2007) and he has also written numerous popular and peer-reviewed journal articles over the years.  His current project, in progress, is the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Arizona and Sonora, co-authored with Doug Danforth and Sandy Upson, to be published in 2009.

Bob Behrstock is a local photographer, writer and tour leader. He has led
bird tours for almost 30 years and participated in the development of a
number of states' birding and wildlife trails. Bob has birded throughout the
U.S., many countries in Latin America, and in the Old World. His butterfly
and dragonfly photography have taken him to all corners of the U.S. and to
Mexico. He has authored or co-authored nearly 50 popular and scientific
papers concerning fishes, birds, dragonflies, and butterflies in the U.S.
and Latin America, and prepared several of the family accounts for The
Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior. His bird and insect photos have
appeared in many publications including Audubon, Smithsonian, Birding,
WildBird, American Butterflies, and the Handbook of Birds of the World. He
co-authored Birdlife of Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast, and
Finding Birds on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail, and authored
Dragonflies and Damselflies of the Southwest.

Alan spent 30 years working and studying cross-cultural studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Currently he volunteers for the National Parks Service at the Coronado Memorial, the BLM, the Nature Conservancy, The National Forest Service, and the Amerind Foundation. He has been leading bird walks in the area for various organizations for the past 6 years.

Steve Ingraham is the Birding and Observation Product Specialist for Carl Zeiss Sports Optics. He has been an avid birder for 20 years, but is best know for his work in birding optics, as the founding publisher/author of Better View Desired (on the web as betterviewdesired.com) and the Tools of the Trade Editor for Birding Magazine. He has been a regular presenter at Birding Festivals and Events for over 15 years.

Gordon Lewis is the manager of Rancho Gulag for Ann Prezyna, his wife. Gordon graduated Columbus grade school in Oklahoma city and promptly left the state. After attending some other schools he fled to Alaska for a number of years. Noticing the dark and cold he fled to Seattle. Noticing the rain he escaped to Arizona leaving his wife behind to work.  

Glenn is a Department of Army Civilian employed at Fort Huachuca as
a technical integrator for the Network Enterprise Technology Command.
His bachelors and graduate degrees are in geography and his research focused
in the area of geomorphology and geology.  Glenn taught geography and
geology in the Life and Physical Science Department of American River
College, Sacramento and was an instructor in geography and geology for 10
years at Cochise College's credit and non-credit programs.  He has led field
trips and lectured for the City of Sierra Vista Parks and Recreation
Department in the areas of--military history, ecology, weather/climate,
geography, and geology.

Ted is a retired Army officer and former engineer for SAIC.  He has lived in Cochise County on and off since 1976 and has a great interest in the natural history of the region.  His hobbies include hiking, biking, painting, and writing.  He is the president of the Friends of the San Pedro River, a docent at the Ramsey Canyon Preserve, and compiler for the Ramsey Canyon Christmas Bird Count.  He and his wife Melanie enjoy travel and currently reside in Ash Canyon.

Brian has been photographing nature for the last 40 years. Some of his work has appeared in a Sierra Club book, newspapers, postcards and “American Birds”. In this endeavor he has traveled most of the U.S., and a bit of Canada, Hawaii and several countries in Central America. In South America he visited Venezuela, Chile, Argentina and Trinidad. Other areas of interest were South Africa, Iceland, Spain, Thailand, Australia, Antarctica and Papua New Guinea. All this travel resulted in a life list of about 2300 species of birds and photos of more than 1400. Since moving to Arizona in 2004 he has concentrated on birds of Southeast Arizona. His program will show birds from various areas of this corner of Arizona.

Bill Radke is a wildlife biologist and is currently the refuge manager of
San Bernardino and Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuges in Cochise
County.  A native of Arizona, and a graduate from the University of Arizona,
Bill has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1983, and has
been stationed at 11 different wildlife refuges in five western states.
Bill is interested in, and knowledgeable of, much of the area's natural and
human history.  He works with a variety of mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians, fish, invertebrates, and plants.  His photographs have been
published in a variety of books, magazines, and other publications.  He
lives with his wife and two daughters in Sierra Vista.

Rick Romea has over 30 years experience with birding.  He has been a field
trip leader for over 10 years, specializing in birding by ear.  Five years
ago he retired to Sierra Vista in SE Arizona from a career in applied
physics in Seattle, and has been volunteering for The Nature Conservancy at
Ramsey Canyon.   He was the on-site manager of The Nature Conservancy's
Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve for 1 ½ years, where he studied extensively
the calls of the birds of SE Arizona.

Angel was born in Germany but grew up in Switzerland and after living           in many parts of the world moved to Sierra Vista, AZ. Here she became a Master Gardener in 1997. Angel writes gardening articles for the Master Gardeners, the SV Area Gardeners Club and the local Newspaper.   She also has a little nursery for Pond Plants where she grows about 50 species of pond and bog plants. Her back yard ponds contain Goldfish and Koi and also a colony of the endangered Ramsey Canyon Leopard frog. She has been a regular speaker on the High on the Desert Garden and Landscape Conference and occasionally teaches classes on Pond Building and Maintenance at the Cochise College. Angel is also a Nature Photographer. Her work can be seen at the Huachuca Art Association’s Gallery and the Tombstone Gallery and you find some of her work at picture.com and in 2 coffee table books and her articles and Art work and Photography at her website: www.angelfrogs.com

Dean Schlichting has over 15 years of professional experience as a Forester, Botanist and a Natural Resource Specialist. Dean is originally from Wisconsin, where he received his BS in Forestry from the University of Wisconsin Stevens-Point. The early stages of his career focused on Forestry and Forest Pathology, but his skills and interest in botany eventually shifted his career into ecology. Since his arrival in Bisbee in late 2003, he has gained extensive knowledge of the vegetation in Southeastern Arizona. Currently he is working for the  Natural Resource Conservation Service, out the Navajo Nation Ecological Site Description Correlation office in Holbrook, AZ. Dean is also currently working towards his masters degree in Rangeland Ecology through Colorado State University.

Helen A Snyder is a retired wildlife biologist living in Portal, Arizona. She and her husband Noel spent their career years helping save a variety of endangered species such as the Puerto Rican Parrot, the Snail (Everglade) Kite, the California Condor and the Thick-billed Parrot. Helen leads tours and occasionally guides folks to see Cave Creek Canyon's spectacular raptor concentrations.