JOE WASILEWSKI grew up in Chicago and was very active in several sports fields, but his heart wished to work with various forms of wildlife. Upon joining the U.S. Army in 1973, he trained as a military policeman working with sentry dogs at a NIKE Hercules missile base in South Florida. While serving, he was employed at the Miami Serpentarium, which kicked off a long career of hands-on work with reptiles. A biologist by training, he has been called “the snake man of the Everglades” and is now president of Natural Selections of South Florida, an environmental consulting firm.
