About the AuthorMark Kramer's career has spanned 25 years at Armand Bayou Nature Center where he served as Conservation Director and Chief Naturalist. He is a native of Pasadena, Texas and began paddling on Armand Bayou as a teenager. He has been a student of Armand Bayou for over 40 years. Mark has been described as a leader, a bayou advocate, a mentor, an educator par excellence and a tireless bayou steward - and all are true.Mark is a Restoration Ecologist, Lecturer, Writer, Interpretive Naturalist, licensed Master Captain with the U.S. Coast Guard, Prescribed Burn Boss, and avid angler. He is the recipient of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Lone Star Land Steward Award, the Bayou Preservation Association Terry Hershey Bayou Steward Award and the Coastal Prairie Partnership Prairie Excellence Award.

Exploring, preserving, restoring and interpreting coastal ecology and wildlife have been his lifelong passion.