Lest folks think that this site isn’t updated, I’m very happy to report that I am not aware of any biologists or wildlife workers that have died in the United States since 2020. I am continuing to try to verify information on some individuals that I may put on the list in the future and I would like do a summary in 2026 to incorporate the last 25 years of information that were not included in my 2003 article.
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In Memoriam – Kevin G. Chapman
Kevin G. Chapman, a biologist working for Schoener Environmental, Inc., was killed in an airplane accident on March 4, 2020 while conducting bald eagle surveys for a wind-power project in Lincoln, IL. Also killed the accident were wildlife biologist Matthew R. Hanson and pilot Mitchell Janssen.
Chapman earned a BS in Zoology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a MS degree in Ecology from Utah State University in 2016. Previously he had worked as a wildlife technician for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and on a number of fish and wildlife projects in the western United States.
Sources: Chicago (Illinois) Sun-Times March, 4, 2020; https://www.owensfuneralhomes.com/obituary/Kevin-Chapman
New location for the Wildlife Biologist Memorial
I first started the online wildlife biologist memorial in the late 1990s, but only maintained it for a few years before letting the project lapse. It was re-started a few years ago as a page at thewildlifebiologist.com but I decided that the topic really deserved a site devoted solely to the wildlife biologists and other wildlife workers who lost their lives while researching or managing wildlife in the United States and this site was born on May 22, 2016.
I’m currently in the process of moving material from the old site to this one and hope to have that completed soon.