Author: Oil City Staff

JACKSON, Wyo. — After 33 years with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Jackson-Pinedale Regional Information and Education Specialist Mark Gocke recently retired. Gocke began his career with Game and Fish as a habitat extension biologist on April 1, 1991. He was one of two biologists hired to launch the new Habitat Extension Program, a partnership between Game and Fish and the Natural Resources Conservation Service that designed to use NRCS and other funding sources to improve wildlife habitat, primarily on private land in Wyoming. Gocke moved to the Jackson-Pinedale Regional Information and Education position in 1995 where he has…