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	Steve received his degree in Biology from Covenant College (Lookout Mountain, GA) and Master&#39;s degree in Biology/Applied Ecology from Eastern Kentucky University. His experience working in wildlife conservation stretches back 25 years to his initiatial work on elk, moose, and mule deer with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks; encompasses his graduate work on inventorying the terriestial vertebrate fauna on Department of Defense lands (including mammalian, avian, reptile, and amphibian species); and includes many years of state and federal government efforts to manage wildlife diversity, especially small mammals such as bats, eastern songbirds, colonial waterbirds, and mussels.</p>
