NWRC values and invests in its people to 

 support their professionalism, competency, and 

 innovation as Federal leaders of wildlife damage 

 management. 



NWRC Biologist Receives APHIS Administrator's 

 Civil Rights Award — Susan Jojola, a biologist 

 with NWRC's Mammals Research Program, 

 was honored on October 26, 2006, with the 

 USDA-APHIS Civil Rights Award for her efforts as 

 a Tribal Liaison for the APHIS Native American 

 Working Group. In that role, Jojola has facilitated 

 partnerships and information exchange between 

 APHIS and Native Americans on topics such 

 as Al surveillance, emergency response and 

 preparedness procedures, and surveillance for 

 chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. She has 

 also served as a mentor providing career guidance 

 to a Native American high school student in Fort 

 Collins, CO. 



Biologist Honored at Florida Wildlife Society 

 Meeting — NWRC biologist John Humphrey was 

 honored with an award in appreciation of his 

 dedication, support, and promotion of the Florida 

 Chapter of The Wildlife Society during its ninth 

 annual spring conference in St. Petersburg, FL. 



NWRC Researchers Submit Winning Posters — 



Dennis Kohlerand Paul Oesterle, both researchers 

 at NWRC who are pursuing graduate degrees at 

 CSU, received awards and recognition for their 

 research at the 2006 Zoonotic Disease Colloquium 

 at the university. The two winning posters: 



Kohler, D.; Bowen, R.A.; Dunbar, M.R.; McLean, 

 R. G. Duration of protective immunity in raccoons 

 (Procyon lotor) immunized with oral rabies virus 

 vaccine V-RG. 



Oesterle, R; Hall, J.; McLean, R. G.; Clark, L. 

 Cliff swallows as a sentinel in West Nile virus 

 surveillance. 



World Rabies Day Walk— On September 7, 2007, 

 about 40 NWRC employees participated in a 

 4-km Fun Run/Walk in honor of World Rabies 

 Day. Each participant received a commemorative 

 T-shirt and information regarding the WS' 

 National Rabies Management Program and 

 NWRC rabies research. 



The mission of World Rabies Day is to raise 

 awareness about how human and animal rabies 

 impact world health, how easy the disease is to 

 prevent, and how its main global sources can be 



Susan Jojola received the APHIS Administrator's Civil Rights 

 Award in November 2007. 



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