BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH


 Paul R. Anamosa was born in Washington D.C. on 22 Nov. 1954. He

spent the early years of his life in rural Maryland, scavenging the

woods near his home for the simple pleasures nature bestows to little

boys; tadpoles, crayfish, and the glee of song-birds resounding from the

protective canopy of a forest. At age ten he and his family moved to

the stark desert of New Mexico, where discovery of the joys of nature

follows the development of an appreciation for browns and grays, and the

patience to look for more subtle evidence of life and change.

 Paul graduated from Sandia High School in Albuquerque in 1973, and

moved to Las Cruces, to attend New Mexico State University. His

interests traversed the life sciences and in May of 1978, he graduated

with Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology, Agricultural Biology, and

Agricultural Pest Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry.

He began graduate studies in entomology at Colorado State University,

only to find that pest management was a dirty job, that somebody had to

do it, but not him.

 In 1979, sponsored by the U.S. Peace Corps, Paul became an

extension agent in the mountains of Jamaica within the Ministry of

Agriculture. There he saw the joys and miseries of people intimately

exposed to the power, fruits, and deprivations of nature. There he

learned to speak patois, roast cashews, eat mangoes, and listen to the

old, the young, and the Rastafarians talk of life, honesty, and