National Wildlife Research Center Trapping Oral History Initiative Transcripts

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Trapping Oral History Initiative Transcripts

Oral history is a method of collecting historical information through recorded interviews. It is not intended to present the final, verified, or complete narrative of events. It is a spoken account and reflects the personal opinion of the interviewee in response to questioning, and, as such, it is partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable.

The following interview transcripts from the Wildlife Services Trapping Oral History Initiative do not represent the policy, views, or official history of the Federal government or the USDA/APHIS Wildlife Services program. The Wildlife Services program respects and realizes that trapping is a sensitive issue for many people.

For more information about the Wildlife Services’ Trapping Oral History Initiative, please contact nwrc@aphis.usda.gov.

Links to full interview transcripts

Interviewee	Age at Time of Interview	Location Worked
Boothe, Dale	64	Utah
Carpenter, Joe	53	North Dakota
Connolly, Guy	67	National Wildlife Research Center
Corr, Odon	72	South Dakota/North Dakota
Dodson, Monte	81	Oklahoma/Texas/Arizona
Fall, Mike	63	National Wildlife Research Center
Follis, Buck	67	Wisconsin
Halvorson, Gale	67	Minnesota
Hansen, Jack	81	Idaho
Hawthorne, Don	64	Oklahoma/Utah/New Mexico/Texas/ Colorado/District of Columbia
Jaureguiberry, Pat	58	New Mexico
Linhart, Sam	73	National Wildlife Research Center
Looney, Gary	56	Idaho
Millsap, Blue	55	California
Oppenheimer, Bob	82 (deceased 2010)	Utah
Pitts, James	76 (deceased 2008)	Oklahoma
Plaggemeyer, John	61	North Dakota
Riley, Glynn	71	Texas
Sanders, Larry	60	Colorado
Shoemaker, Jerald “Shorty”	66	North Dakota
Taylor, Philip	68	Utah
Thomas, Stan	65	Oregon

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