producer and host, KPIX-TV, Discovery Channel USA, Discovery International, and Westinghouse International The Adventurers, host, Discovery USA and Discovery International Wild Things, host, Discovery USA Wild Guide, narrator, Westinghouse International and Discovery’s Animal Planet Channel Petline, co-host, Discovery’s Animal Planet Channel Preview Vacation Bargains, co-host, NBC stations in eight cities Pacific Currents, producer and host, KPIX-TV KING 5 Magazine, producer and reporter, KING-TV in Seattle McConnell’s national specials and mini-series include: Discoveries of a Lost Voyage, co-host, Discovery USA Secrets of Alcatraz, producer and host, Discovery USA Secrets of Alcatraz: Return to the Rock, producer and host, PBS Secrets of the Gold Rush, producer and host, PBS Secrets of the Wine Country, producer and host, PBS Big Cat Tales, host, Discovery USA Prime Time Primates, host, Discovery USA The Crusaders, Pilot, producer and reporter, Buena Vista Television Personal life McConnell received a bachelor's degree in Government from Pomona College (1967), and a master's degree in Political Science from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University (1968). Since 1983, McConnell has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two sons, and a bevy of pets. He maintains a busy schedule of community activities, including serving on the Advisory Board of the local environmental watchdog San Francisco Baykeeper, and has been honored recently by the Marin Humane Society as "Humanitarian of the Year," by the San Francisco Bay Trail Project as "Volunteer of the Year," by California State Parks as "Honorary Ranger of the Year," and by the National Park Service as "Honorary National Park Ranger." McConnell has received many regional Emmys and other broadcast awards during his long career in television. In addition, McConnell has been given the prestigious Harold Gilliam Award for environmental reporting and storytelling in Northern California. Beyond his television work, McConnell has managed significant communications programs for the President's Commission on Coal, the Governor of Alaska, the University of Alaska, The Institute of Ecology, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and many other institutions. McConnell's most recent venture is the creation of an online travel community called "OpenRoad.TV with Doug McConnell - The Traveler's Video Guide to the American West". OpenRoad.TV will be stocked with all the video, knowledge and insights that McConnell has compiled over the years and continues to collect. The professionally produced video content will be organized into easily accessible geographical and categorical contexts, with users being invited to vastly