Doug VandegraftDoug Vandegraft was born in southern California and received his first degree from Northern Arizona University in 1982. He lived in Alaska from 1983 - 2000. While working as a Cartographer for the Federal Government, he earned a second degree from th University of Alaska Anchorage in 1998. In 2000, he moved to the Washington DC area where he served as the first Chief Cartographer for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. In 2016, he became the first Chief of the Geospatial Services Division for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. He began his Notorious Bars of Alaska project in 2000, utilizing records housed at the nearby National Archives and books at the Library of Congress. During his fourteen years of research, he made several trips back to Alaska, visiting libraries, historical societies, and bars that he hadn't visited yet. The first edition of Notorious Bars of Alaska was published in 2014, and the second edition in 2017. Doug retired from the Federal Government in 2018 and lives with his wife JoAnn in La Conner, WA. Read More Read Less