Henry Milton Reeves papers, 1927-2013

Henry Milton Reeves was born on March 31, 1927. He served in the United States Navy for a year beginning in 1945, then enrolled at Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University), earning a bachelor's degree in Wildlife Management in 1950. Reeves gained considerable experience with waterfowl during his employment as an Idaho Department of Fish and Game conservation officer an research biologist, studying birds and muskrats on Dingle Marsh, Idaho. This work became the basis for his master's thesis at USAC and led to the creation of the Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Reeves then joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1953, working various positions in Texas, Canada, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Maryland before ultimately moving to Washington, D.C., where he served as chief of the Branch of Operations, Office of Migratory Birds beginning in 1976.

Following his retirement in 1983, he continued to author and edit academic books and articles, including Flyways (1984) and Ecology and Management of the Mouring Dove (1993). Prior to his death on February 1, 2013, Reeves was working on a book project related to the relationship of migratory game birds and human societies in North America.