Eric C. York, a wildlife biologist with the National Park Service, died on November 2, 2007 died of pneumonic plague contracted after conducting a necropsy on a mountain lion. York earned a Bachelors Degree from the University of Maine at Orono in 1992 and a Masters Degree from the University of Massachusetts.
Sources: Greenfield (MA) Recorder November 13, 2007; KMGH TV, Denver CO November 13, 2007.