Sixty nine years ago on May 9, 1937 a boy was born to Beulah and Forrest Slabaugh. The place was a medium sized farm in northern Indiana. After a childhood of hunting and fishing he went off to college at Purdue University. It wasn't long before he relized he wasn't as smart as he thought he was. After four years he had enough ROTC credits to become an officer in the army. In 1960 he was assigned to serve at Dugway Proving Grounds, eighty miles out of Salt Lake City, Utah. In the spring of 1963 he left the service to seek his fortune. His forture was good for a while, but other people always swindled him. Finally he took a job in a coal mine near Price, Utah. When the mine closed he came to Las Vegas for the winters and started doing nature projects in the summer. Several years ago he decided it would be a big help to put his projects on the internet. So now the summers are spent working on projects and the winters are spent working on the website. The website is thene.org, which is, "The Nature Experience". Check it out. There are projects in Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Some of the pictures have been furnished by other nature people. I try to always give credit to the person furnishing the photo. Last year about thirty days were spent working hard labor for a nature organization and they didn't even say thanks when it was done. Thats about the way nature organizations work. You are just a volunteer, and when you don't show up anymore they just look for someone else. Lots of times they don't really care if anything is really accomplished. They just want to say it was done. It is my intention to do things the way they should be done.