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Jim worked for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources for 31 years, first as a field botanist and later specializing in wildlife diversity projects, especially those involving birds. He has authored or coauthored six books. One of these, Wild Ohio: The Best of Our Natural Heritage (Kent State University Press), won the 2010 Ohioana Book Award. Other books include Birds of Ohio (Lone Pine Publishing 2004), Great Lakes Nature Guide (Lone Pine Publishing 2009), and Ohio Lake Erie Birding Trail Guidebook (Ohio Sea Grant 2013). Jim was a coauthor of the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio (Penn State University Press 2016) and was a coauthor of the technical manual Floristic Quality Assessment Index (FQAI) for Vascular Plants and Mosses for the State of Ohio (Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 2004). Jim has written a column, Nature, for Ohio's largest circulation newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch, since 2005. This is one of the longest running natural history columns in publication, having debuted in 1922 and with only three authors to date (Edward S. Thomas, 59 years; Jim Fry, 29 years; Jim McCormac, 2005 to the present). McCormac has written scores of articles for other publications and is a longtime contributing editor for Bird Watcher's Digest, where he pens a regular photography column. A prolific speaker, Jim has delivered hundreds of presentations on a wide variety of topics throughout the eastern U.S. In 2015, the Ohio League of Sportsmen named him Conservation Communicator of the Year. Jim has had hundreds of photographs published in a wide array of forums.

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