Cave Creek's sumptuous ecological diversity and temperate climate make it an attractive place for retired biologists.

One retired biologist for the southwestern office, Sally Stefferud, suggested in a telephone interview that the issue went beyond the question of whether to consider modern genetics.

Bill Goodnight, 66, a retired fish-and-game biologist, has kept scrupulous track of the taxes on his 100-year-old home on Boise's far northeast side.

She is one of four children of Jeanette, a chemist, and Robert, a retired biologist who worked for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

"He's a good muzhik," agreed the architect's husband, a retired biologist, using a word for peasant that denotes a regular guy.

A lovely man, a retired biologist from the University of Michigan, maintains a butterfly farm and runs a side business of setting people afloat.

Gotthilf Hempel (born March 8, 1929) is a retired German marine biologist and oceanographer.

Among them is Dr. Michael Gough, a retired biologist who was chairman of a federal advisory panel for the Ranch Hand study from 1990 to 1995.

"It is not fair chase," said Edgar P. Bailey, a retired biologist and an occasional hunter who owns a 650-acre wildlife preserve on the Kenai Peninsula.

Mr. Bailey, the retired biologist, said the lopsided fund-raising was influencing perceptions of baiting.