Tim Prior Oral History Transcript

Growing up in Oswego, Mr. Prior hunted and fished as a youth due to the influence of his grandparents being interest in hunting and fishing and organizations they belonged to.  He attended the University of New York in Oswego with dual majors in biology and secondary science education and would teach a few years before attending the University of Hawaii studying oceanography in the graduate program there. He worked for the state of Hawaii and Department of the Army before joining the Fish and Wildlife Service, noting that the people and organizational reputation of the Service is what drew him to want to work for the Service. Mr. Prior gives his opinions on how the Service has changed from the time he started to the time he retired, high and low points of his career, and advice he would give to those coming into the Service today.