Doug Frugé Oral History Transcript

Doug Frugé was born and raised in southwest Louisiana.He attended college at McNeese State University (BS 1973), and then graduate school at Louisiana State University (MS 1975).He worked for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries for two years before joining the US Fish and Wildlife Service at the Vicksburg ESFO.He worked on the D’Arbornne and Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuges in northeast Louisiana before moving to Alaska in 1982.   He became the Oil and Gas Coordinator for the Refuge Program in the Anchorage Regional Office, working on the EIS and regulations governing the oil and gas exploration of the Arctic NWR.He became Deputy Manager of the Arctic NWR, and then was a Fishery Biologist in Fairbanks, documenting and recording fishery resources of the Beaufort Sea along the Arctic NWR coast.   In 1989 he returned to the lower 48 states and became the Assistant Field Supervisor of the Fort Worth/Arlington (TX) ESFO.   Then, for 17 years he became the Coastal Fish Coordinator for the Service at the Gulf Coast Fishery Coordination Office in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.He finished his career in the Denver Regional Office where he was a Fishery Program Supervisor.   Doug retired in 2017.