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	About Us
	Many people ask us why we started a new conservation organization. We formed Habitat Education Center (HEC) for several reasons. First, most other Wisconsin based environmental groups focus on air and water pollution. HEC focuses on wildlife whose populations suffer from a lack of strong advocacy and habitat protection. Second, scientific support behind ecological campaigns in the Upper Midwest needs to be stronger. HEC is the only statewide group with its own Ph.D. scientist, Resource Ecologist and toxicologist Dr. Dave Zaber. To further support our education and campaign projects, HEC conducts video taped interviews with leading botanists and biologists. Third, much of the Environmental movement has chosen to mimic giant special interests with polling, expanded management and planning meetings. We at HEC feel that by having smaller budgets, non-profits will yield lesser results than their larger budgeted opponents if they use the same methods. Knowing that our opponents can't match us in speed or traditional grass roots methodology, HEC has chosen this route. HEC decision making is very streamlined and non-bureaucratic. With over 42 years of experience in the field, our staff doesn't need three levels of decision making bureaucracy to come up with successful solutions. HEC's rapid and continued success is proving us right.
	HEC's Staff
	Ricardo Jomarron, President Ricardo Jomarron is a founding member of HEC and serves as the organization’s Program Director. Mr. Jomarron has been active in environmental issues at the local, state, national and international levels for 22 years. His community organizing efforts were key to brining curbside recycling to Wisconsin and secured funding for Madison’s community gardens. He has shot and/or produced numerous environmental and educational videos for Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Great Lakes United and Wisconsin’s Environmental Decade. Titles include: DEADLY POWER which examines the terrible environmental and social costs of hydropower development in Manitoba. REFUGE: The Incredibly Diverse Mukwonago River. Ricardo has also done work for Harley Davidson, Marriott Hotels and Senator Fred Risser. In addition, Ricardo was a co-founder and director of Greenpeace's Wisconsin office. Ricardo is also the former Director of Greenpeace's Wisconsin office.
	David J. Zaber, Ph.D., Vice President David Zaber is a founding member of HEC and serves as the organization's Ecologist and Toxicologist. Dr. Zaber has been active in environmental issues at the local, state and national levels for over 21 years and is the author of numerous scientific reports in the fields of environmental toxicology and resource ecology. Prior to arriving in Wisconsin, Dr. Zaber was Director of Science at Defenders of Wildlife in Washington, D.C. and is author of the report, Southern Lessons: Saving Species Through the National Forest Management Act "http://www.defenders.org/pubs/sfor01.html")