Duane L. Shroufe
Director of the Arizona Game and Fish Department

Duane Shroufe has been Director of the Arizona Game and Fish Department since January 1989. His employment with the Arizona Game and Fish Department started in April 1984 as an Assistant Director. Prior to coming to Arizona, Duane worked for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Fish and Wildlife for 17 years, where he served as a property manager, property staff specialist, and Chief of Wildlife. Duane is a certified wildlife biologist with a BS degree in wildlife biology from Michigan State University.

Duane was the President of the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies in 1997, and currently chairs several of the Association’s committees. He was the President of the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies in 1992. He was the President two different years of the Colorado River Fish and Wildlife Council and Chairman two different years of the Pacific Flyway Council. He is the current Chairman of the North American Wetlands Conservation Council. His current memberships include the Arizona Outdoor Recreation Coordination Commission, University of Arizona School of Renewable Natural Resources Advisory Council and Arizona’s Growing Smarter Oversight Council.

Duane received the 2000 Director’s Award from the Western Wildlife Law Enforcement Association for outstanding support of wildlife law enforcement. He received the Leadership in Promoting Outdoor Ethics Award in 2000 from the Boone and Crockett Club and Wildlife Professional of the Year Award in 1997 from the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. He received the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies’ Ernest Thompson Seton Award in 1996 and the Outstanding State Statesman’s Award in 1993 from the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep. He was the recipient of the Seth Gordon Award in 2001 given by the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies for working steadfastly and effectively for the best use of North America’s natural resources in the public trust and for contributions to the programs of the International.

Carol Lynde
Host

Carol Lynde is the newest member of our video production crew and she brings a long list of television credentials with her, but it was a career that almost didn't happen. Her original goal was to become a magazine photographer, but through her father's friend she got an internship at a Phoenix TV station many years ago and the rest, as they say, is history.

After four years at KTVK-TV, this Arizona native let her videography and editing talents take her across the country. She spent seven years at WAGA-TV in Atlanta as a news photographer and editor. She then moved to WGNX-TV, also in Atlanta, where she was chief photographer for six years. During her time in Atlanta she won six regional Emmys and dozens of other broadcasting awards.

Then she did something odd. At the height of her television career, she packed up and moved to Great Falls, Montana to work for tiny KRTV in their video production department. "Not everyone considers it a good career move to go from the 10th market to the 183rd, but it was the best thing I have ever done for myself personally. Montana was wonderful. I consider my time there a three-year working vacation." But the vacation eventually ended when she moved to Denver and KWGN-TV, where she was assignment manager for the news department. "My first and, I hope, last desk job. I can honestly say I tried it, and it confirmed what I already knew-I want to be in the field taking pictures."