{"id":4274,"date":"2024-02-07T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/?page_id=4274"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:35:06","slug":"2024-s1-rfrabasilio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/2024-s1-rfrabasilio-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenter-Rick Frabasilio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Rick Frabasilio<\/h2>

Fish and Wildlife Biologist
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services<\/p>

Email: Richard_frabasilio@fws.gov<\/a>
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Q. What is the highlight of your career?<\/strong>
A. The highlight of my current career as a fish and wildlife biologist would be completing my second degree in Environmental Science, with an emphasis on Fish and Wildlife Management. This degree secured my current position where I work with, care for, breed, and release the Wyoming toad, an endangered species. I also retired from a career in Law Enforcement and have many stories and highlights. From that, I am most proud of earning the Officer of the Year award in a department of about 170 sworn officers.<\/p>

Q. What are challenges you encounter in your career?<\/strong>
A. As a biologist, I am responsible for over 1000 Wyoming Toads. Maintaining a healthy breeding population is vital to the program. I am always monitoring the toads\u2019 health, environmental conditions, feed, water quality, and any other hazards that may negatively affect their well-being. I have identified and removed several of these hazards and continue to work to improve the toads\u2019 health.<\/p>

Q. How did you get to this career?<\/strong>
A. retired from a 24-year career in law enforcement. I had the opportunity to continue my education and always wanted to work in the hatchery system. I completed my degree and volunteered for 6 months at the Saratoga Hatchery. I then completed a 6-month internship and was hired to run the Wyoming Toad program.<\/p>

Q. What is something unique about your career most people might not know or understand about what you do?<\/strong>
A. Just the idea of working with a species that is considered extinct in the wild and trying to reintroduce it back into its home range in the Laramie Basin.<\/p>

Q.\u00a0Are there scholarship or internship opportunities available with your career? If so, where can more information about those be found?<\/strong>
A. Yes, there are intern positions available. The SCA, or Student Conservation Association, is a great place to start, offering opportunities all over the country. The US Fish and Wildlife also hires seasonal technicians, and this would also be a great place to start.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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2024 Session Speakers Rick Frabasilio Fish and Wildlife BiologistU.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Email: Richard_frabasilio@fws.govWebsite: www.fws.gov\/fish-hatchery\/saratoga https:\/\/youtu.be\/pnSBHh6NMDg Q. What is the highlight of your career?A. The highlight of my current career as a fish and wildlife biologist would be completing my second degree in Environmental Science, with an emphasis on Fish and Wildlife Management. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4617,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}