Rebecca Conard is professor of history emeritus at Middle Tennessee State University. Her publications include P laces of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism (Iowa, 1997) and Benjamin Shambaugh and the Intellectual Foundations of Public History (Iowa, 2002). She lives in Coralville, Iowa. Angela Corio worked as a state park planner with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for more than three decades. She is coauthor of Iowa State Parks Design Guide: Long-Term Vision for State Park Architecture . She lives in Des Moines, Iowa. Jim Scheffler worked for the Iowa Conservation Commission/Iowa Department of Natural Resources for thirty years. His special projects included developing the Iowa Civilian Conservation Corps museum and the Maquoketa Caves State Park visitor center.
He lives in Bondurant, Iowa.