| Gayle
A. Unruh is the Environmental and Historic Preservation
Manager for the Missouri Department of Transportation. In this position
she leads a group of 45-employees that provide expertise in environmental
and cultural resource planning, documenting, and permitting through
the National Environmental Policy Act and associated laws. Before
taking the manager position she was the wetland coordinator and
a wetland specialist where she did wetland delineating, wetland
mitigation planning and constructing, and Clean Water Act permit
processing for MoDOT. After graduating from McPherson College in
environmental science (BA-1979) and Western Illinois University
in zoology (MS-1989) and before coming to MoDOT, Gayle worked in
wildlife biology, avian toxicology, and document writing for projects
through out the country. She has also taught environmental science
for Columbia College in Jefferson City. Gayle shares her life and
home with her husband, Dr. William R. Elliott, cave biologist extraordinaire.
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