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HARJU RECEIVES WILDLIFE SOCIETY’S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
WGFD, Contact: Mark Gocke (307) 733-2321
For Immediate Release
12/20/02
LARAMIE -- Harry Harju, assistant chief of the Wildlife Division for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, was recently awarded the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wyoming Chapter of the Wildlife Society. Harju plans to retire from the Game and Fish Department at the end of January following 26 years of G&F service.
“Harry has been an icon in the wildlife profession for many, many years,” said Wyoming Wildlife Society president, Tim Byer. “Harry has been known for his fierce dedication to the wildlife resource and not mincing words when it came to protecting it. Harry is one of a kind and we felt like we needed to pay due respect to what has been an extraordinary wildlife career. We believe he is an appropriate recipient of the Society’s first ever lifetime achievement award.”
Harry started his state service as a teaching assistant at the University of Wyoming. He also served as a professor at UW before beginning his G&F career as a staff biologist in Cheyenne. In 1983 he was promoted to supervisor of biological services. In 1993 he was promoted to assistant Wildlife Division chief.
Harry is a Newberry, Mich. native. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northern Michigan University and his doctorate from UW. His master’s thesis was on spruce grouse and he studied the ecology of blue grouse to earn his doctorate.
Harry is widely recognized as one of North America’s most knowledgeable wildlife biologists. Newspapers and magazines frequently contact Harry for his expertise on big game, game birds and hunting. He has the gift of translating biology to the language of the common man.
Harry belongs to the Wyoming and the National wildlife federations, the Audubon Society, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, National Wild Turkey Federation and Pheasants Forever.
He has also served as an instructor at Laramie County Community College and Chapman College on F.E. Warren Air Force Base.
In his spare time he enjoys hunting, fishing, camping, motorcycles, handloading ammunition and gardening.
He, and his wife Linda, have one son.
WGFD, Contact: Mark Gocke (307) 733-2321
For Immediate Release
12/20/02
LARAMIE -- Harry Harju, assistant chief of the Wildlife Division for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, was recently awarded the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wyoming Chapter of the Wildlife Society. Harju plans to retire from the Game and Fish Department at the end of January following 26 years of G&F service.
“Harry has been an icon in the wildlife profession for many, many years,” said Wyoming Wildlife Society president, Tim Byer. “Harry has been known for his fierce dedication to the wildlife resource and not mincing words when it came to protecting it. Harry is one of a kind and we felt like we needed to pay due respect to what has been an extraordinary wildlife career. We believe he is an appropriate recipient of the Society’s first ever lifetime achievement award.”
Harry started his state service as a teaching assistant at the University of Wyoming. He also served as a professor at UW before beginning his G&F career as a staff biologist in Cheyenne. In 1983 he was promoted to supervisor of biological services. In 1993 he was promoted to assistant Wildlife Division chief.
Harry is a Newberry, Mich. native. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Northern Michigan University and his doctorate from UW. His master’s thesis was on spruce grouse and he studied the ecology of blue grouse to earn his doctorate.
Harry is widely recognized as one of North America’s most knowledgeable wildlife biologists. Newspapers and magazines frequently contact Harry for his expertise on big game, game birds and hunting. He has the gift of translating biology to the language of the common man.
Harry belongs to the Wyoming and the National wildlife federations, the Audubon Society, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, National Wild Turkey Federation and Pheasants Forever.
He has also served as an instructor at Laramie County Community College and Chapman College on F.E. Warren Air Force Base.
In his spare time he enjoys hunting, fishing, camping, motorcycles, handloading ammunition and gardening.
He, and his wife Linda, have one son.
