Matschke, George H., 2017

George H. Matschke was born in 1933 in New Jersey. He graduated from Auburn University in 1956 with a degree in Game Management. Following college, he entered the Army Reserves and was stationed at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. After his time in the army, he entered graduate school at Auburn University, where he studied the effects of chlorinated hydrocarbon on water moccasins. In 1960 he was employed by the Tennessee Game and Fish Commission to study the life history of the European wild boar in eastern Tennessee. In 1968, George earned a PhD in Reproductive Physiology at the University of Tennessee at Oak Ridge. He then got a position at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Denver Wildlife Research Center in the Section of Mammals. His research focused on chemicals and repellents for controlling rodents. In 1972, George was transferred to the DWRC’s field station in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, where he was tasked with developing reproductive inhibitors for controlling white-tailed deer. After 3 years in Kentucky, he returned to the Denver Wildlife Research Center in Lakewood, CO. His work focused on conducting laboratory and field efficacy studies on rodenticides as required by the Environmental Protection Agency. These studies were one of the EPA’s requirements for re-registration of these compounds. George retired in 1999.