Robert N. (Bob) Griffin
Starkville, MS
Bob is a 35+ year veteran of natural resource management in Mississippi and retired from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks in 1999. Receiving a BS in Forestry and a MS in Wildlife Ecology from Mississippi State University, he is a Certified Wildlife Biologist with The Wildlife Society and a Registered Forester in Mississippi (RF#952). Bob became a licensed real estate agent in October 2004 and joined the Mississippi Land Company team to establish a presence in the Starkville area where he and his family have resided since 1978.
Much of Bob's recent work has been with private landowners in developing comprehensive forest/wildlife management plans, developing baseline reports for conservations easements, and in quality deer management programs. He is a Life Member of the Mississippi Wildlife Federation and theNational Rifle Association, and a member of The Wildlife Society, the Quality Deer Management Association, the Boone and Crockett Club, and the National Wild Turkey Federation. In addition to doing volunteer work with the Mississippi-based Catch-A-Dream program, he also serves on the Advisory Committee for the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries at Mississippi State University.
Honors and Awards:
- » Graduated with Distinction, Mississippi State University, 1969
- » Member of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society
- » Member of Xi Sigma Pi National Forestry Honor Society
- » Selected as Mississippi's 1st Outstanding Young Forester, 1975
- » Wildlife Conservationist of the Year, 1988, Oktibbeha County SWCD
- » Humanitarian Award, MS Sheriffs Boys and Girls Ranch
- » Wildlife Federation Wildlife Conservationist of the Year , 1999
