He has a BS in biology and a BFA in art, both from UM-Duluth.  Kurt regularly gives talks and workshops on dragonfly identification and ecology throughout Minnesota.  He has traveled as far as Sweden to pursue his love of dragonflies, but is blessed to live in the North Woods where dragonflies abound.  He lives on a small homestead in the woods near Finland, Minnesota with his wife, Betsey, also a naturalist, and his two young daughters, Yarrow and Lily (who are showing great promise in the field of Odonatology). 

Kurt is the coordinator for the newly-formed, Minnesota Odonata Survey Project, whose goal it is to survey and record the dragonfly and damselfly populations of Minnesota.

Kurt has also worked in a pea canning factory, as a grunt for the MN DNR, did DNR creel surveys of steelhead trout anglers, as a garbage man, an animal control officer, an urban wildlife trapper, an aquaculturist, a security guard, an acid rain monitor, a waiter, a delivery driver and an elected township supervisor.  He hopes to never work a full-time job again!

He also builds the old Swedish game, Kubb, and teaches the game to anyone who will stand still long enough.