Michael Allen Bogan

A year has passed, memories of you fill my heart with joy. Forever remembered, forever missed.

In the mid 1990s for about 4 years, I was blessed to work with Mike, Cindy, Ernie and other field crew on the San Andres National Wildlife Refuge. We camped between March and October, mist netting for bats, running small mammal traps in the mornings, and collecting other herp specimens for the UNM Museum of Southwestern Biology. In addition to learning the very meticulous techniques of preparing specimens by day, we had such treasured days and nights camping in the San Andres Mountains. ...

Mike set many of us on the joyous paths we now walk. William James wrote that "Wisdom is learning what to overlook", which to me crystalizes what made Mike so special and influential. Upon our first meeting and for months after, Mike´s wisdom let him overlook my weird exterior to see the qualities of a latent scientist (unfocused enthusiasm and hyper-diverse interests) bubbling within. The me that wandered into Mike´s office at UNM back in the early 1990´s didn´t know whether I would spend my...

I first met Mike when I was a PhD student at the University of New Mexico. He was a constant presence in the museum where my office was located and I quickly learned that he was the go to person for any question about mammals. How I marveled at his extensive library of mammalogy books all perfectly arranged by topic and placed forward on the shelves so that they all lined up perfectly. That is when I started my own library, though mine is not as perfect as his was. I loved the occasions...

I met mike while doing a postdoc at UNM. Mike was a great friend, a wonderful source of knowledge, an amazing personality... in short, a wonderful person. I remember fondly those times, some of the best of my life. I could always count on him for advice; not only on my bat projects, but on anything. He drove me to and from a bat research conference in AZ once (with Ernie Valdez and Paul Cryan) in a federal vehicle (Ford Expedition). Probably illegal relative to government regs, but he...