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	Bob&rsquo;s first experience at Au Sable occurred in 1967 while he was an undergraduate at Taylor University and a student of Dr. Harold Snyder. He took two field courses that summer and returned after graduation in the summer of 1968 to direct the water front and lead the Canadian Wilderness Bush Camp for the Au Sable Trails Junior Science camp that shared the facilities with Taylor University&rsquo;s field station. Bob spent the next four years serving in the Marine Corps and dabbling in grad school.</p>
