Chapin is a native of Hibbing, Minnesota. He earned his bachelor's degree in zoology in 1972 from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, after a two-year tour in the U.S. Army. Most of his twenty-nine year career as a natural resource conservation officer has been spent in the Grand Rapids, Minnesota, district where he also served as Area Supervisor for seven years.
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'...The pleasure is the listener's, as well as Chapin's.' - AudioFile Magazine