[Bristol-Birds] Allen Boynton retiring from VDG&IF; will return to North Carolina position.
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'Bristol Bird Club'" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:08:12 -0400
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Allen Boynton, a regional wildlife biologist with the Virginia Department of
Game & Inland Fisheries for Southwest Virginia, has announced that he put in
his retirement papers last Monday with the Department.
He will be going back to work for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources
Commission as their Diversity Program Coordinator. This will be work with
terrestrial threatened and endangered species and other species that are not
hunted. The position will be office work and not field work.
Allen will be moving to Raleigh next month, but will keep his Troutdale, VA
home as a retreat from urban life.
He was employed with the NC Wildlife Resources Commission from 1979 - 1995
(16 years) and worked in a number of different positions with NCWRC, and
particularly in their Nongame and Endangered Widlife Program from 1986 -
1995.
Since coming to Virginia in 1996, he has been stationed at the region office
of VDG&IF at Marion as a wildlife biologist with 34 years experience in
state wildlife agencies. Much of his more recent time has been spent on elk
restoration. He has been at Marion for almost 20 years.
In his previous job with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission,
he worked out of Morganton and gained much recognition for his successful
effort in the Southern Appalachian region of North Carolina and associated
foothills working to reintroduced Peregrine Falcons in Western North
Carolina. Much of his work was along the numerous river gorges cut through
mountainous area, particularly through the Blue Ridge escarpment.
He earned a B.S. at Virginia Tech in Forestry and Wildlife and a MS in
Natural Resources at the University of Vermont 1977-1979.
We are nervous about the possibility that he will not be able to get back to
Southwest Virginia often where he has been a fixture with the Mount Rogers
Naturalist Rally for many years and is virtually a co-chair of the event
with Scott Jackson-Ricketts.
Allen will be greatly missed and we wish him well.
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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