Jones has been serving as the agencys acting deputy director since Rogers retirement and also served as acting deputy director from June to September, 1999. During his 25-year career with the Fish and Wildlife Service, Jones has held a number of positions in Regional and Washington offices and in several Service program areas. Most recently, he has been Assistant Director for International Affairs since 1994.
"Marshall Jones has extensive knowledge of national and international conservation issues, as well as experience working with our partners in the States and the conservation community, other Federal agencies, and the conservation programs of other nations," Director Clark said. "I know he will serve as deputy director with great professionalism and tremendous personal dedication to our employees, to our partners, and to our mission."
As Assistant Director for International Affairs, Jones administered the Service=s involvement in bilateral and multilateral conservation efforts, including the U.S. Management and Scientific Authorities for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Ramsar Wetlands Convention, and the listing of foreign species and administration of international wildlife permits under the U.S. conservation laws. He also administered programs that assist conservation efforts for elephants, tigers, rhinos, migratory birds, and other species around the world.
In previous positions with the Service, Mr. Jones served in Washington as Chief of the CITES Management Authority from 1988-94; as Acting Chief of the Division of Ecological Services in 1987; in the Services Southeast Region as Chief of the Regional Endangered Species Division from 1984-87 and before that as a comprehensive planning specialist in the Regional Division of Federal Aid; and as Acting Chief of the Endangered Species Division in the Services Regional Office in Denver in 1978. He began his career as a biologist and technical writer in the Office of Endangered Species in Washington, D.C., in 1975.
Mr. Jones majored in zoology and English at the University of Michigan, received an M.S. in vertebrate ecology from Murray State University in Kentucky, and did additional graduate work at Cornell University. He served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1971. He resides in Washington, VA with his wife, Cornelia Clay Fulghum, a writer from Augusta, GA, and has one daughter, Erin K. Jones, of Nashville, Tennessee.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. The Service manages the 93-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System which encompasses more than 530 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 66 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resource offices and 78 ecological services field stations. The agency enforces Federal wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the Federal Aid program that distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish and wildlife agencies.
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