Author: Blake Sasse

Dr. David S. Maehr, of the University of Kentucky, died June 20, 2008 in an airplane accident near Lake Placid, Florida while monitoring radio-collared black bears using radiotelemetry. He earned his BS in wildlife from the University of Ohio and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Florida. He was among the pioneers in the study of the endangered Florida panther as a biologist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission from 1980-1994.

Source: Tampa Bay Times, June 21, 2008; http://sofia.usgs.gov/memorials/maehr/

Shannon “Bubba” Tunnell, an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, died on June 5, 2015, when the airplane in which he was serving as an aerial gunner crashed near Raton, New Mexico while on a coyote control flight.

Sources: Portales News Tribune June 12, 2015;