Dusty is a graduate of the University of Wyoming. After graduation, he worked a variety of jobs including ground fish observer aboard commercial fishing boats on Alaska’s Bering Sea, biological technician for the U.S. Forest Service, lodge manager near Homer, Alaska, and marine biology instructor on Catalina Island. Dusty has a passion for many outdoor sports such as SCUBA diving, snorkeling, sea kayaking and canoeing, and has been involved with the direction and coordination of education programs in southern Louisiana, California, and most recently as a Community Naturalistfor Audubon Wyoming. Favorite quote: "I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest." ~John Buchan