Elizabeth Losey Explained

Elizabeth Losey
Birth Name:Elizabeth Brown Beard
Birth Date:25 December 1912
Birth Place:East Orange, New Jersey
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:University of Michigan
Occupation:Conservationist
Refuge biologist

Elizabeth Brown Losey (née Beard) (December 25, 1912 – 2005) was an American conservationist who is recognized as being the first female refuge biologist.

Education

Losey was born in East Orange, New Jersey on December 25, 1912.[1] [2] She went to high school in Lynn, Massachusetts. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in wildlife management and conservation in 1946.[3] Initially, Losey could not find work because she was a woman. She worked as a research assistant for the University of Michigan until 1952. She created a series of teaching aids in wildlife management, including the Outline of upland game bird management (1947).[4]

Career

In 1947 she was employed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a biologist at Seney National Wildlife Refuge.[5] Her assignment was to understand the importance of beavers in waterfowl management.[6] Losey was the first woman research biologist in the country. She quit when she was told she was being transferred West, as by that time "romance had crept in".[7] She was only employed by the agency for three years, but built up a successful career as an ornithologist.[8] Rachel Carson recognized Losey's preparations for a manuscript on trumpeter swans as "an excellent job of organizing the material for an effective story". In 1964 she published her observation of duck broods at the Seney National Wildlife Refuge.[9]

Losey travelled America and Canada taking photographs of fur trading posts and collecting Native American art, which was later donated to the DeVos Art Museum in Michigan.[10] Losey wrote two books. Let Them Be Remembered: The Story of the Fur Trade Forts, the story of the Hudson's Bay Company and the 1600 fur trade, was published in 1999.[11] Her second, Seney National Wildlife Refuge: its story, was published in 2003.[12] She remained a volunteer at Seney National Wildlife Refuge until her death in 2005. She wrote her final peer-reviewed paper at the age of 92 on the history of the Sharp-tailed Grouse, which was published after her death.[13] She was a lifetime sponsor of Delta Waterfowl Foundation.[14] She is regarded as a pioneer in gender equality within fieldwork.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The First Female Field Biologist. Conservation Gateway. March 12, 2018.
  2. Web site: Transcript of Interview with Elizabeth Losey by Mark Madison and George Gentry March 15, 2003. https://web.archive.org/web/20100523012743/http://library.fws.gov/OH/losey.elizabeth.031503.pdf. May 23, 2010. Madison. Mark. Gentry. George. www.fws.gov. September 2, 2022.
  3. Web site: A Look Back: Elizabeth "Betty" Losey National Wildlife Refuge System. https://web.archive.org/web/20120926004750/https://www.fws.gov/refuges/about/conservationheroes/ElizabethBettyLosey_07202012.html. September 26, 2012. System. National Wildlife Refuge. www.fws.gov. en. March 12, 2018.
  4. Book: University of Michigan.. Outline of upland game bird management. Beard. Elizabeth Sherwood Browne.. 1951. Overbeck Co.. Ann Arbor.
  5. Web site: Elizabeth Browne Beard Losey papers. www.nmu.edu. March 12, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20150223162117/http://www.nmu.edu/sites/DrupalArchives/files/UserFiles/MSS-004.html. February 23, 2015. dead.
  6. Web site: USFWS/NCTC - History and Heritage. https://web.archive.org/web/20150326051021/https://training.fws.gov/History/ConservationHeroes/Losey.html. March 26, 2015. Webmaster. NCTC. training.fws.gov. March 12, 2018.
  7. News: Collection Spotlight: The Elizabeth Brown Beard Losey Papers. May 22, 2014. The Northern Tradition. March 12, 2018. en-US.
  8. Web site: klinger.htm. www.webpages.uidaho.edu. March 12, 2018.
  9. Beard. Elizabeth B.. 1964. Duck Brood Behavior at the Seney National Wildlife Refuge. 3798202. The Journal of Wildlife Management. 28. 3. 492–521. 10.2307/3798202.
  10. News: Losey Collection of Native American Art and Artifact. Flickr. March 12, 2018. en-us.
  11. Book: Browne., Losey, Elizabeth. Let them be remembered : the story of the fur trade forts. 1999. Vantage Press. 0533125723. 1st. New York. 44722618.
  12. Book: Browne., Losey, Elizabeth. Seney National Wildlife Refuge : its story. 2003. E.B. Losey. 0972783407. 1st. [United States?]. 54206811.
  13. Web site: History of Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) at Seney National Wildlife Refuge and Surrounding Areas, Schoolcraft County, Michigan. https://web.archive.org/web/20170310163049/https://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/Losey2007.pdf. March 10, 2017. Losey. Elizabeth. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home Page. March 12, 2018.
  14. Web site: 2016 Annual Report. Delta Waterfowl. March 12, 2018. March 13, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180313093110/https://deltawaterfowl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DW_AnnualReport_2016.pdf. dead.

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