Lefebvre, Paul and Lynn, 2019

Paul Lefebvre was born June 6, 1938 in Somerset, Massachusetts. He attended the University of Massachusetts, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in wildlife management in 1959. In 1961, Paul earned a master’s degree in wildlife management from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. After graduation he received a temporary appointment with the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the Ashville Forest Service Station, which was the Southeast Forest Service Experiment Station. He then served in the Navy for three and a half years. After completing his military service, Paul returned to the FWS, working at the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi. Following that positon, Paul worked in Stuttgart, Arkansas, as a Research Biologist on rice and blackbird and starling roosts. In 1969, Paul transferred to the Gainesville Field Station in Florida where he continue to work on blackbird roosts dispersals, surfactants, repellents, toxicants, and testing chemicals on rice for phytotoxicity. Paul served as the Assigned Biologist in charge (ABinC) of the Gainesville Field Station from 1970-1972 and again in 1984. He retired from the DWRC in 1988.

Lynn (Walsh) Lefebvre was born April 11, 1949 in New York City, NY. She attended the University of Delaware, graduating with a B.A.A.S. in Biology in 1971. She went on to earn a master’s degree in Wildlife Management from the University of Massachusetts in 1973. Following graduation, Lynn served for a year as an Assistant Staff Specialist for the Marine Mammal, Endangered Species, and Mammal and Non-migratory Birds programs of the USFWS in Washington, D.C. In 1974, she was hired as a Research Wildlife Biologist at the Gainesville Field Station, where she began working on rodent depredations to sugarcane. In 1976, she began working on her PhD thesis on the population dynamics of the round-tailed muskrat (neofiber) in FL sugarcane and earned her PhD from the University of Florida in 1982. During her time at the FL field station, she conducted field and laboratory studies designed to provide information for improving the efficacy and safety of rodenticide treatments in Florida sugarcane. Lynn left the DWRC in 1985 to work as a Wildlife Biologist with the National Ecology Research Center in Gainesville, where she studied the ecology of Florida manatees and wildlife damage to FL sugarcane by roof rats.

Paul and Lynn met at the Gainesville field station in 1974 and subsequently married in 1976. They have been married now for more than forty years.