Background
Buechner was born in 1918, in Scotia, New New York
Buechner was born in 1918, in Scotia, New New York
Then he got master"s degree from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1943, and in 1949 got his Doctor of Philosophy from Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College.
He got his bachelor"s degree from New York State College of Forestry and Syracuse University in 1941. From 1948 to 1965 he taught botany and zoology at Washington State College. Foreign 3 years (1969–1972), he was a Senior Ecologist for the Office of Environmental Sciences, and for 3 more years (1972–1975), for the National Zoological Park.
He died in Washington, District of Columbia on October 7, 1975.
He also received The Wildlife Society’s Terrestrial Research Award for his work with bighorn sheep. Twice Helmut Buechner was awarded Fulbright Program appointments as Senior Scholar on Wildlife Research in Uganda, from 1956 to 1958.
In 1965 he became a member of the Smithsonian as its first director of the office of ecology.