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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

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.