Jim Rearden

Jim Rearden is a World War II veteran who served aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer escort in the Pacific theater of war. He holds wildlife degrees from Oregon State University, and the University of Main, as well as an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He resided in Alaska from 1950 until he died in 2017. He organized the department of wildlife management at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and taught as head of that department for four years. He served on the Alaska Board of Game for twelve years, and was Outdoors Editor for Alaska Magazine for twenty years, simultaneously serving as a Field Editor for Outdoor Life magazine. He lived on the Kenai Peninsula in a log home he built.