Susan Flader is Professor of United States Western and Environmental History at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
R. Roger Pryor is Executive Director of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment.
John A. Karel, currently Director of Tower Grove Park, served as State Park Director during 1979-1985.
Charles Callison served for many years as Executive Vice-President of the National Audubon Society.
Oliver Schuchard is Professor of Art and teaches landscape photography at the University of Missouri-Columbia.