Maurice Brooks
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Maurice Brooks (16 June 1900 - 10 January 1993 ) was an American educator and naturalist whose name became synonymous with the natural history of Appalachia. He was born on the family farm at French Creek, Upshur County, West Virginia, where he maintained a residence for much of the remainder of his life. While perhaps best known for his contributions to ornithology, Brooks also made contributions to botany, herpetology, mammalogy, and chemical ecology.
He attended Davis and Elkins College and West Virginia Wesleyan College before eventually graduating from West Virginia University in 1923. In 1934, he joined the faculty of West Virginia University as a professor in the Biology Department. In 1938, he moved to the Division of Forestry, where he taught courses in wildlife management until his retirement in 1969.
[edit] Honors and Awards
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow of the American Ornithologists’ Union
- Order of Vandalia in 1970, by West Virginia University
- West Virginia Man of the Year in 1970, by West Virginia State Legislature
- West Virginian of the Year in 1970, by Charleston Gazette Mail
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Check-list of West Virginia birds, West Virginia University
- The Appalachians (1965), Houghton MiffliN
- The life of the mountains (1968), McGraw-Hill
