[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 28, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E67-E68]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    IN RECOGNITION OF DONALD A. DUFF

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                           HON. JIM MATHESON

                                of utah

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 28, 2004

  Mr. MATHESON. Mr. Speaker, I rise to pay tribute to Mr. Donald A. 
Duff, of Salt Lake City, who is retired after forty-three years of 
Federal service on January 2, 2004. His abiding love of this country 
began at the age of seventeen during his service as a seasonal postal 
carrier in northwest Washington, DC.
  In 1959, Mr. Duff enlisted in the United States Air Force, following 
in the footsteps of relatives who have served this nation in every 
conflict since the Revolutionary War. He also comes from a long line of 
relatives with close ties to our capital city including a great-great-
grandfather who assisted Pierre L'Enfant in

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laying out the streets of Georgetown and a great-grandfather who grew 
the first American Beauty Rose in the White House garden. Mr. Duff's 
father also served as an Admiralty lawyer, working with Presidents 
McKinley and Franklin Roosevelt to establish merchant marine laws. The 
U.S. Congress and the Maritime Commission recognized his work by naming 
in his honor a WWII Liberty Ship, the ``S.S. Edwin H. Duff.''
  Mr. Duff served the Air Force Strategic Air Command Headquarters as a 
photo intelligence specialist, analyzing satellite and U2 photography 
during the Cold War. In 1962, he made the initial confirmation of a 
Russian missile in the Havana harbor that ultimately led to the Cuban 
Missile Crisis.
  Mr. Duff also distinguished himself as a wildlife and fisheries 
biologist in the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service and the Bureau of Land Management. These agencies, as well as 
the Environmental Protection Agency, the American Fisheries Society, 
and Trout Unlimited have recognized him, for his expertise in 
conserving native fishes and in river restoration.
  He was a member of America's first fisheries scientific exchange with 
the Republic of Ireland in 1989. In the ensuing years, he developed a 
management plan for restoration of Ireland's salmon species. Ireland 
was later awarded 19 million pounds from the European Union for this 
restoration, and Mr. Duff served as the chief external advisor from 
1995-2000, restoring over 200 miles of salmon-bearing rivers and 
habitats. He has been instrumental in providing similar assistance to 
other European and Asian countries during his career.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing Mr. Duff's achievements 
on the occasion of his retirement.

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