New Habitat and Access biologist in Yoder

The Laramie Region welcomes Dericke Lavoine as the new Habitat and Access biologist in Yoder.

Lavoine comes to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department from Indiana. He was born in Indianapolis and grew up in a military family and has lived in many places, including Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he completed a semester of college. He later graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a bachelor’s degree in biology.

After college Lavoine worked on urban wildlife conflicts and at a wildlife sanctuary in San Antonia, Texas. He later managed the Tri County Hunting and Fishing Area for the In...