LAUGHRIN, Lyndal Lee

Left to right: Bob Hansen, employee of The Nature Conservancy (left),with Lyndal Laughrin, Santa Cruz Island Reserve, during the transition ceremony turning the island over to TNC, 1988.

Left to right: Margaret Thatcher shaking hands with Lyndal Laughrin; Jim Sulentich and Steve Junak.

LAUGHRIN, Lyndal Lee (b. 1943), biologist and resident manager for the University of California Santa Cruz Island Reserve since 1968. He completed his PhD at U.C.S.B. and is a foremost authority on island foxes. He is member #5 of the All Eight Club.

» Laughrin, Lyndal The island fox: a field study of its behavior and ecology. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California Santa Barbara, 1977. 83 pages.

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