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Richard Brown is a moth taxonomist and director of the Mississippi Entomological Museum at Mississippi State University. His faunistic and biogeographic research on Lepidoptera has focused on species occurring in unique habitats, especially grasslands, in the southeastern United States. Dean Elsen is the wildlife biologist for the Bienville Ranger District in east-central Mississippi. His job entails management of the largest population of red-cockaded woodpeckers in the state, prairie restoration , prescribed burning, and deer and turkey management. He is especially interested in landscape archaeology and how Native American¤res and activities shaped the coastal plains. Tom Foti earned an M.S. in botany from the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville). Since 1985 he has worked as plant community ecologist and chief of research for the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission. He has published a number of scienti¤c papers and books on Arkansas vegetation and environment, including the relationship of people to the natural environment. He has studied blackland prairies of Arkansas since 1972 and has produced two publications on the subject. Currently he is coauthor of a book in preparation on the vegetation of Arkansas , with Edward E. Dale, professor emeritus of the Department of Biology, UAF. Meryl Hattenbach received a B.A. in anthropology (1993) and an M.S. in environmental science from Ohio State University (1996). From 1997 to 1999 she worked for the University of Florida as a contractor on a state-funded grant to the Nature Conservancy of Florida, coordiContributors nating a groundcover restoration project on longleaf pine sandhills. She worked for the National Park Service from 1999 to 2000 in the ¤reeffects monitoring program at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Since 2000 Meryl has been a ¤eld ecologist with the Nature Conservancy of Arkansas. S. Homes Hogue is an associate professor of anthropology and Cobb Institute of Archaeology senior research associate at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on prehistoric and protohistoric bioarchaeology and evolution in the southeastern United States. She is particularly interested in dietary reconstruction, health, and disease. Lynn Stacey Jackson received a B.S. in wildlife and ¤sheries science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1987 and an M.S. in wildlife ecology from Mississippi State University, Starkville, in 1989. She has been employed as a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service since 1989, when she began her career on the DeSoto National Forest. In 1991 she transferred to the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana, where she has been involved in red-cockaded woodpecker management as well as prairie and bog restoration. Kay Krans is a 1971 graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, where she earned a B.S. in secondary education/history and political science. She obtained a master’s degree in secondary education/ reading at Mississippi State University. For the past several years she has team-taught a course at Starkville High School that centers on the science and history of land use of the Mississippi Black Prairie. She and Sherrill Wiygul obtained a National Geographic Society grant to create the course and to lease 24 ha of blackland prairie in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, for preservation and education. John MacDonald is interested in plant taxonomy and phytogeography of the southeastern United States, with emphasis on ®oras of Mississippi and Alabama. A biological consultant, he is currently working on a Ph.D. in botany at Mississippi State University. Barbara R. MacRoberts and Michael H. MacRoberts trained as anthropologists (Berkeley 1968) with postdoctoral education in ethology (Oxford 1972). The MacRobertses worked in the sociology of knowledge and interbehavioral psychology before turning to botany. Centered on the West Gulf Coastal Plain, they focus their efforts on the conservation of rare plant communities. They are self-employed (Bog Research). Victor Maddox holds a B.S. in horticulture with a minor in botany from Southeast Missouri State University, an M.S. in agronomy from Mis338 Contributors sissippi State University, and a Ph.D. in agronomy with a minor in biological sciences (plant taxonomy) from Mississippi State University (MSU). He is employed as a research associate in the Plant and Soil Sciences Department at MSU. His current research interests involve the use of native tallgrasses in golf-course natural areas. Rebecca Melsheimer received her B.A. in anthropology from Mississippi State University in 2001. Currently she is attending the University of New Mexico, working toward an M.A. and eventually a Ph.D. in anthropology. Her research focuses on examining how environmental changes affect human subsistence practices and, ultimately, how these...

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