You probably have to be a lifelong, or at least a long time, resident of Wyoming to remember Crow now, but he was a great man.
Born in 1939, and passing away four years ago on Thanksgiving Day, Crowe was a local character who authored a slightly fictionalized account of his early years in the book A Growing Season. Born in Kansas, he came to Wyoming as a teenager with his family and was shipped off to the UC Ranch for summer work in an event which would end up defining the rest of his life, a fairly typical Wyoming story, really.
Crowe served in the U.S. Army, married upon his return, and the went to Casper College and UW to earn a PhD in Zoology in 1974. From there he became a very significant wildlife manger for hte Wyoming Game and Fish, and ultimately served in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife and a host of southern African fish and game organizations. He was dedicated to wildlife.
He was also a great author, although it only expressed itself in a handful of books. A column in The Wyoming Wildlife, while he worked for the Wyoming Game and Fish, was the first thing I read it in every time it arrived.
Crowe was outspoken and folksy, but hugely intelligent and dedicated. He epitomized wildlife management in Wyoming of his era and is greatly missed.
