Yolo County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....LOTT , Dale January 26 2004 ********************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/obits/ca/obitsca.htm ********************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Peggy B. Perazzo pbperazzo@comcast.net June 11, 2004, 2:52 pm "Winters Express," Thursday, February 5, 2004 Dale Lott UC Davis professor emeritus Dale Lott, a sage counselor to his colleagues and an irrepressible travel guide to his friends, died Monday, Jan. 26, 2004. He was 70 years old. Lott’s death, from longstanding pulmonary fibrosis only recently diagnosed, was unexpected. Just last September he led his friends on a canoe trip tracing Lewis and Clark’s rout on the Upper Missouri River. Most recently he had been working on plans for a newly forming prairie-based wildlife reserve in western Montana as well as a book about that project. Although he wrote numerous papers and a scholarly book on animal behavior in his 30 years at UC Davis, he waited until he retired in 1994 to write a non-fiction book for general audiences about bison, his lifelong interest, and the settling of the American West. Lott’s decades of studying animal behavior and social organization took him around the world. Besides his bison research, he investigated animal behavior before earthquakes and interactions between nomadic herdsman and their cattle in Kenya, and was one of the first scientists to study the possible impact of tourists on wildlife. For his 60th birthday, Lott planned a 60-mile hike with friends across the Vizcaino Desert in Baja California. An accomplished pilot, Lott often flew colleagues to research sites. Lott was the founding chair of the Department of Wildlife, fish and Conservation Biology. He served as chair for six years, from 1973-1979, and Lott helped found the Animal Behavior Graduate Group at UC Davis, which has become the largest body f faculty working in animal behavior at any campus in the world. Lott is survived by his wife Laura K. Lott, of Davis; a son and daughter-in-law, Terence and Janis Lott of Davis; a brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Sue Campbell of Spokane, Wash.; an aunt, Maizie Hermann of Spokane; and his former wife, Donna Lott of Davis. His family and friends will hold a memorial service at a later date. In honor of Dale Lott’s dream of establishing a fully functioning prairie ecosystem on the American Plains that would include the reintroduction of wild bison, his family requests that memorial contributions be made to: American Prairie Foundation, PO Box 908, Bozeman, Mont. 59771. For more information, email Dakota@prairiefoundation.org. Additional Comments: Submitted with the permission of the "Winters Express," 312 Railroad Ave., Winters, CA 95694. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/caobfiles/ File size: 3.0 Kb