Robinson, Weldon B.

Weldon Robinson reminisces about his career as a wildlife research biologist working for the U.S. Forest Service, Biological Survey, Denver Wildlife Research Center (DWRC), and USDA's, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Wildlife Services. He discusses his work in wildlife damage control where he worked to control coyotes and rats by using trapping and toxicants. Robinson talks about field research, his work overseas, and his dislike of toxicant research.

Series I contains interviews from 2008-2012. Materials include research and project files, biographies of interviewees, transcripts of interviews, correspondence, publications, photographs, CDs containing interviews, and digital files.

Teddie Statler reminisces about her career as the director's secretary at the Denver Wildlife Research Center. She describes the training that prepared her to work in the director's office, as well as directors and DWRC personnel, animals and research, and changes in the DWRC over time. Teddie shares stories that reveal the culture of the DWRC and what professional and personal life was like when she worked there.