Kevin is from the Somerset Pennsylvania area and has been an Outdoorsman all of his life. After moving to Colorado from 1995 to 2005, he became actively involved with wildlife management in that state and began working with the Colorado Division of Wildlife through affiliate organizations. He balanced this work while furthering his studies practically and academically, doing project work and instructing for many of those years.
In his studies and work with wildlife, he immersed himself in the study of big game mammals of North America, with special emphasis on black and grizzly bears. From 1999 to 2001, he conducted an in-depth project to study bear attacks on humans for the purpose of an educational video, to attempt to associate the activity of the perpetrating animal in attack versus bluff scenarios.
Kevin served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Bighorn Society in Denver Colorado, where he was involved in trap and transplant efforts of Bighorn Sheep for bloodline interaction and disease study/control. He also did project work studying Mountain Lion population densities along the Front Range area of Colorado, working to assist the Division of Wildlife in accurate density analysis through the collection and analysis of hair samples for DNA, for tag allocation purposes.
Throughout his time in Colorado, Kevin stayed involved with a variety of organizations doing classes and fieldwork with institutions such as the University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He provided study opportunities to graduate students for thesis and dissertation work in areas of population presence/absence, where populations once thrived, and in the study of migrant wild sheep to permanent residency in untraditional habitat. Degree conferment’s are Master of Science-Wildlife Management, and Doctorate of Philosophy- Zoology, after culminated academic cores, studies, classes, and demonstrating proficiencies in Wildlife Management, Forestry and Wildlife Conservation, Ecology, Geology, Biometry, Endocrinology, Evolutionary Ecology, Conservation Biology, Cellular Neurophysiology and over a decade of field work.
During his career, Kevin has had over 70 published articles on outdoor and wildlife management related topics and is an established wildlife Photographer with formal training through the New York Institute of Photography. He has also been a tour guide in Rocky Mountain National Park. Kevin has previously been in law enforcement as well as having been a Larimer County Colorado Park Ranger and Deputy Waterways Conservation Officer for the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
Now residing back home in Somerset Pennsylvania with his wife Sandy, daughter Cienna and son Wyatt, Kevin continues to lecture for sporting expositions and private businesses, such as gun store events, as well as libraries and colleges. He is actively involved with wildlife management efforts as an independent consultant working with population density studies, harvest and tag allocation issues, wildlife forensics, remnant population analysis and continues to monitor grizzly reintroduction initiatives.
Kevin has previously been in Radio Broadcasting and has a background in the production of commercials for Outdoor Sportsmen Events. Some of the commercial clients include: The Addison volunteer Fire Departments Sportsman’s Exposition and George Klucky Wilderness Films. He also works as part of the adjunct faculty for Allegeny College of Maryland’s Somerset Pennsylvania campus, where he instructs Creative Photography and other opportunities offered through that facility.
Kevin joined the Water and Woods Network team as a Staff Writer with emphasis on wildlife management as well as habitat and wild resources. He provides content to the Deer Fever forum as Doc Wild and is available in the “ask the experts” area of Water and Woods under “Ask Doc Wild”.
