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Friday, 24 October 2008 20:00 |
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Dr. Stan Kotala has been a lifelong nature enthusiast and conservationist. He began birding at age 12 and has been a member of the National Audubon Society for more than thirty years and the Pennsylvania Society for Ornithology for close to two decades. He is also a member of the Sinking Valley Watershed Association, the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsman's Clubs, Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Wilderness Society. Dr. Kotala has served as president, newsletter editor, conservation chair, education chair, membership chair, and Important Bird Area coordinator for Juniata Valley Audubon, based in Altoona. He was the conservation chair and education chair for Blair County Trout Unlimited during the 1990s. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Little Juniata River Association, the Fort Roberdeau Association, and Rails-to-Trails of Central Pennsylvania. From 1996 till 2004 he was the Western Ridge and Valley Regional Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Herpetological Atlas Project and now serves on the Amphibian and Reptile Technical Committee of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey and on the Reptile and Amphibian Advisory Committee of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. He also is the wildlife and endangered species chair and wetlands chair on the Executive Committee of the Moshannon Group of the Sierra Club. Dr. Kotala is a DCNR water quality monitoring volunteer at Canoe Creek State Park near Hollidaysburg. He serves on the Watershed Protection Committee of the Altoona City Authority and on the steering committee of the Blair County Natural Heritage Inventory as well as on the Centre County Greenways steering committee. Dr. Kotala earned his medical degree from Temple University in Philadelphia and has practiced medicine in Blair County since 1988. He lives with his wife and daughter in Sinking Valley.
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