Larry Blus Oral History Transcript

Larry Blus oral history as conducted by John Cornely. Mr. Blus started at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center under Lucille Stickel. He would travel to various areas to do work various projects concerning pesticide use. Mr. Blus would spend 28 years with the FWS before being transferred into the U.S. Geological Survey, where he spent another 4 years. Organization: FWS; U.S. Geological Survey Name: Larry Blus Years: 1966-1994 (Retired from U.S. Geological Survey in 1988) Program: Refuges Keywords: History, biography, employee (USFWS), military, contaminate research projects on sharp-tailed shrews, brown pelicans (The Brown Pelican Project), royal and sandwich terns, and sage grouse, pesticides, Lucille and Bill Stickel, Eugene Dustman, Chuck Henny, Dick Stroud, Woody Hill, David Hoffman, egg shell thinning, U.S. Geological Survey