. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1991 News and Comment 415 George E. Menkens, Jr., 1957-1990* Dr. George E. Menkens Jr., 33, was lost on 11 October 1990 along with fellow Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, John Bevins, 35, and pilot, Clifford Minch, when they failed to return from a research flight to monitor radio-tagged polar bears over the Arctic icecap. An exhaustive search began several hours after the plane was reported overdue at their Point Barrow, Alaska departure site. On 25 October, official efforts by the Coast Guard and Fish and Wildlife Service were ter- minated.
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1991 News and Comment 415 George E. Menkens, Jr., 1957-1990* Dr. George E. Menkens Jr., 33, was lost on 11 October 1990 along with fellow Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, John Bevins, 35, and pilot, Clifford Minch, when they failed to return from a research flight to monitor radio-tagged polar bears over the Arctic icecap. An exhaustive search began several hours after the plane was reported overdue at their Point Barrow, Alaska departure site. On 25 October, official efforts by the Coast Guard and Fish and Wildlife Service were ter- minated. No emergency signals or other radio com- munications were received from the aircraft follow- ing its departure from the airport. It is thought that the plane went down in open water. Dr. Menkens grew up in the Hudson River com- munity of Central Valley, New York. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in forestry at Syracuse University in 1979, then went on to receive Master's and degrees in zoology and physiology in 1982 and 1987 from the University of Wyoming, Laramie. His doctoral dissertation involved the pop- ulation dynamics and ecology of the White-tailed Prairie Dog in Wyoming. He then spent a year at the University of Wyoming as a post-doctoral research associate working on Black-footed Ferret reintro- duction techniques. His involvement with Canada Geese followed as part of a research associate posi- tion with the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. In May 1989, Dr. Menkens returned to the University of Wyoming as Assistant Director of the UW-National Park Service Research Center and its field station in Grand Teton National Park. During his tenure, he was a high profile spokesman for the center immediately following the internationally monitored fires that swept the region and for the his- toric meeting held in the center's field station facili- ty between Secretary of State James Baker and Sovie
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