. Howard A. Schuck became interested in trout fishing and trout conservation as a young boy with a vision disability. He attended Cornell University, studying stream and fisheries management with George C. Embody and Charles M. Mottley. He designed a method for counting the total number of trout in an entire stream system. During World War II he worked on counts of commercial fisheries, especially the North Atlantic haddock for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries in the Dept. of the Interior. After the war, he joined Charles Mottley in the Operations Analysis group of the U.S. Air Force on a project to evaluate the existing North American Warning System. Under C.M. Mottley's guidance, he proved that the nation's deterrent/retaliatory nuclear capability (SAC's B-36s) could be destroyed by a sneak Soviet attack. After these findings were accepted by the nation's leaders, he became head of the Identification and Raid Recognition Division of the new North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), the Chief of the Alaskan Air Command Operations Analysis Office, Senior Operations Analyst at the Stanford Research Institute, and he later joined the Dykewood Corporation, another defense contractor. He returned to environmental research, with a project at the University of Alberta to explore options for developing the Canadian Arctic regions; to Grumman Ecosystems Corporation as Director of Alaskan Operations; and to the National Marine Fisheries Service in Washington, D.C.