Professor Emeritus of Recreation, Parks and Leisure Studies at State University of New York College at Cortland. Retired after 46 years teaching environmental and outdoor education courses.  Was also Director of the Coalition for Education in the Outdoors and editor of Taproot, the organization’s journal of outdoor education.

Co-founder, first Board president and long-time director of the Lime Hollow Center for Environment & Culture in Cortland, New York.  It has been his great honor to help people see, understand, and love the land.  Author of three books, Foxey Brown: An Adirondack Outlaw, Hermit and Guide... (2011), Jacob's Land: Revolutionary War Soldiers, Schemers, Scoundrels and the Settling of New York's Frontier (2016) and The 'Tree' of Us: Richford Boys Who Changed the World and What They Left Behind. (Spring 2023).