Subject: Re: News Release from Fish & Wildlife
Date: Sep 26 18:21:19 1997
From: Janet Carroll - jrc at pop.seanet.com


Peggi & Ben Rodgers wrote:
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> Hummm. Interesting........
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> Peggi
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> >TESTIMONY OF JAMIE RAPPAPORT CLARK DIRECTOR OF THE U.S. FISH AND
> >WILDLIFE SERVICE BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC
> >WORKS ON S. 1180 THE ENDANGERED SPECIES RECOVERY ACT OF 1997
> >September 23, 1997
> >

This is not about the director's comments on the ESA, but just some
extraneous information. In 1978 I worked for The Peregrine Fund hacking
(releasing) young peregrine falcons to the wild. My first job was at
Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. My partner at this job was Jamie
Rappaport, the new Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Jamie was
about 20 at the time and was an undergraduate student at Towsen (sp)
State University in Maryland. Her father was a general at Aberdeen
Proving Ground.

Aberdeen Proving Ground was tick capital of the world, and I remember
Jamie's aversion to walking around the tall grass where we would often
come back with 40-50 ticks on us. Her aversion was very strong and
somehow it fell on my shoulders to do much of the work tracking the
peregrines and other things that involved time with the ticks. I didn't
enjoy the ticks, but enjoyed following the peregrines once they fledged
and got used to picking off ticks.

I was extremely surprised when I read a press release which documented
here rise to the directorship of the Fish and Wildlife Service. I
assume she has matured and flourished in this field to have gone so far
so quickly. It went something like this. After she got her master's
degree in Wildlife, she got a job with the Army Reserve as coordinator
of Natural and Cultural resources. Then she had a wildlife position
with the Department of Army. Next she was a senior staff biologist for
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Then she was the Assistant Director
of the SE Region of the USFWS. After that she was in charge of
Endangered Species and now she is the director. I'm not sure I got that
exactly correct, but you get the idea. Quite a career!!

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Janet Carroll
Everett WA
jrc at jrc.seanet.com
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