The following is a list of wildlife workers that are known to have died as a result of participating in wildlife research or management activities since 1937 (which was selected to represent the start of wildlife management as a professional field based on the formation of The Wildlife Society in that year).
NAME, YEAR, AGENCY
William Carl Gower,1945,Michigan Department of Conservation
Orange A. Olsen,1945,U.S. Forest Service
Maurice Layton Hinshaw,1947,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Paul Richard Schneider,1947,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
L. P. Kindler,1948,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Clarence Stanley Johnson,1949,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Smith, William Edwin, 1949,Arizona Game and Fish Department
Ross Moores,1949,Arizona Game and Fish Department
Donald G. Lauridson,1950,Colorado Game and Fish Department
Gus Engeling,1951,Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Donald Ernest Johnson,1953,Nevada Division of Wildlife
Ray Sterling Meschkat,1953,Nevada Division of Wildlife
Nathan Warren Fellows Jr.,1956,Maine Department of Inland Fish and Game
Ocie C. Gray,1960,New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
Austin Roberts,1960,New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
Doyle E. Cisney,1961,Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Sterling Gene Clawson,1962,Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks
Ralph A. Rouse,1962,Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks
LeRoy Garvin Bohuslov,1964,Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Gary Wohlfeil,1964,Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Frederick Albert Shannon,1965, Medical doctor in private practice
J. Donald Smith,1967,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Robert A. Uppgren,1967,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Arthur E. Bratlie,1968,Alaska Department of Fish and Game
John J. Frank,1968,Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Galen M. Northrup,1969,Bureau of Land Management
Paul Martin,1969,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Douglas J. Pierson,1969,Washington Department of Fish and Game
James A. Erickson,1970,Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Gerald L. Fisher,1970,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Neil LaFave,1971,Wisconsin Department of of Natural Resources
Dewie Henson McCall,1971,North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
William D. Cooper,1973,National Park Service
John Ebersole,1973,National Park Service
Charles Goodman Hansen,1973,National Park Service
Samuel B. Buntrock,1974,Idaho Department of Fish and Game
Gary L. Richardson,1974,U.S. Forest Service
Unknown,1974,U.S. Forest Service
Robert D. Bergman,1974,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Leonard A. Boughton,1974,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
J. Larry Haddock,1974,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Terry Lee McCoy,1974,University of Montana
James Michael Cox,1975,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
William Graf,1975,San Jose State University (Retired)
Judy Southern,1975,University of Missouri-Columbia
Terry G. Wilson,1975,Missouri Department of Conservation
Spencer A. Linderman,1975,Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Glenn Allen Paur,1978,University of North Dakota
Donald W. Pyle,1979,Skidmore College
Leonard Koziol,1979,Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Randall Schilling,1979,Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Jack Sinn,1979,Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
Allen R. Severson,1980,Arizona Game and Fish Department
Don Teauge,1980,Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
James L. Swiderski,1980,U.S. Forest Service
Scott Jay Maness,1981,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Beau William Sauselein,1981,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Garrett Bruce Bowman,1982,Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Paul B. Schneider,1983,University of California-Riverside
Rick F. Seegmiller,1983,University of Arizona
Lawrence H. Schumacher,1984,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Rich Barcelona,1986,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
James C. Bicket,1986,Bureau of Land Management
John T. Cantu,1990,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Karen L. Norton,1990,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
John Bevins,1990,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
George E. Menkens Jr.,1990,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Stephen Laing,1991,Utah Department of Wildlife
Kirk Inberg,1991,Wyoming Game and Fish Department
Kevin Roy,1991,Wyoming Game and Fish Department
Gregory S. Felzien,1992,Hornocker Wildlife Research Institute
Joni M. Coury,1992,Oregon State University
Stephen James Young,1992,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Richard E. Fitzner,1992,Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Lester Earl Eberhardt,1992,Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Valerie Chabot,1994,Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Estevan Escobedo,1994,Arizona Game and Fish Department
Craig S. Johnson,1994,University of Tennessee
Scott Shull,1994,University of Tennessee
Joseph L. Moore,1995,National Biological Survey
Cliff Stevens,1995,Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Steve Martin,1996,Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Seth J. Diamond,1996,Intermountain Forest Industry Association
Darwin Mabbutt,1996,U.S. Department of Agriculture-Wildlife Services
Randall H. Kacyon,1996,Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Josh Nove,1997,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Taryn Hoover,1997,National Park Service
Shane Cornwall,1998,U.S. Department of Agriculture-Wildlife Services
Mike Callow,1998,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Kathleen Cheap,1998,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Eric Cox,1999,University of Idaho
Grant Scott Coyour,1999,Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Michael Walter Gratson,2000,Idaho Fish and Game Department
Keith Williams,2000,Idaho Power and Light
Eric C. York, 2007, National Park Service
Rocky Spencer, 2008, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
David S. Maehr, 2008, University of Kentucky
Gordon Haber, 2009, Private individual
Vernon “Ray” Bentley, 2010, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
David Sherwood Pitkin, 2010, Private individual
Tami Wagner, 2010, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Wesley Littrell, 2010, Texas Parks and Wildlife
Kevin O’Connor, 2010, California Department of Fish and Game
Clu Cotter, 2010, California Department of Fish and Game
Tom Stolbert, 2010, California Department of Fish and Game
Michael Tyner, 2011, Ventana Wildlife Society
Chad H. Cyrus, 2011, Big Sky Wildlife Consultants
Randy C. Schwartz, 2011, Big Sky Wildlife Consultants
Thom Lewis, 2011,U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Ronnie Marie Sidner, 2014,Private Individual
Shannon Tunnell, 2015,U.S. Department of Agriculture
Laura McClellan, 2016,Private Individual
Benjamin M. Poirier, 2018,Hells Canyon Helicopters
Angela Nicole Chadwick Hawkins, 2019,U.S. Department of Defense
Mark Alan Jackson, 2019,Kansas Department of Parks and Wildlife
John David Bittner, 2020,Wildlife Research Institute
Kevin G. Chapman, 2020, Schoener Environmental
Matthew R. Hanson, 2020, Schoener Environmental
Benjamin Joel Peterson, 2020,Western EcoSystems Technology
Robert Dittmar, 2020,Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Brandon White, 2020,Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Dewey Douglas Stockbridge, 2020,Texas Parks and Wildlife Department