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John P. Taylor, Jr., senior wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, died suddenly of a massive stroke on September 27, 2004. John was born on October 13,1954 and lived in Mesilla, New Mexico for most of his next 20 years. While in high school he was an exchange student in Brazil: a harbinger of his fondness of and future work in Latin America. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from New Mexico State University in 1980 and a Master of Science from Texas Tech University in 2000; he had worked toward a Ph.D. at New Mexico State University, which was awarded posthumously in December 2004.
In 1974 John was a co-op student for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in Washington, D.C., and then worked at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Illinois as a student trainee in 1978. He also worked for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Las Cruces, New Mexico as a range technician in the summer of 1978. In January 1979 he again was a student trainee, this time at Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge in Minnesota. In January 1981 he was placed as the refuge trainee at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Minnesota until November...