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	Fred Van Dyke is Executive Director of the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies and formerly Professor of Biology, Chair of the Department of Biology and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Wheaton College (Illinois). After receiving his Ph.D. in environmental and forest biology from the State University of New York-Syracuse, Fred served as a wildlife biologist for the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, a scientific consultant to the National Park Service, and an ex officio member of numerous interdisciplinary management teams of the U. S. Forest Service.</p>
