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Fred Dobler, Wildlife Program Manager

Region 5 Program Manager Retires- Regional Wildlife Program Manager Fred Dobler will retire after 31 years of service to the Department. Fred says in parting " I have tried to challenge myself and those around me to always strive for excellence and integrity. I have seen our world change and the challenges for the Department are greater than ever before, and it seems now the process has become the objective. Those that remain must remember our original mission, and strive for excellence and integrity, only that will allow us to reach the goal." Fred's last day was March 31, 2006

April 3, 2006

Region 5 Program Manager Retires- Regional Wildlife Program Manager Fred Dobler will retire after 31 years of service to the Department. Fred says "The Department is the only employer I have ever had. It has in many ways made me what I am today, and undoubtedly in some ways I have shaped it too."

He started as a temporary worker with Applied Research back in 1975 on the Rock Island 2nd Powerhouse Impact Study. Soon he became the project leader there. He left Applied Research in 1980 to take the lead on peregrine falcon work for the "Nongame Program", and later did work on gyrfalcons, shrub-steppe and pygmy rabbits. Leaving Wildlife Diversity research in 1992 for an Area Biologist job in Ephrata, he continued to contribute to knowledge and management of shrub-steppe species in Region 2. In 1996 he joined the Region 5 management team in Vancouver.

Fred says in parting " I have tried to challenge myself and those around me to always strive for excellence and integrity. I have seen our world change and the challenges for the Department are greater than ever before, and it seems now the process has become the objective. Those that remain must remember our original mission, and strive for excellence and integrity, only that will allow us to reach the goal."

Fred's last day was March 31, 2006