Gregory Burr


Gregory Burr grew up in the midst of Acadia National Park in the tiny village of Northeast Harbor. This small town was surrounded by the beauty of the park, and this inspired him to become an avid outdoorsman and fisherman. He graduated from Mount Desert Island High School in 1981. He then attended Unity College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Science with a concentration in inland fisheries management.

In 1987 he was hired as an inland fisheries biologist with the Maine Dept. of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, stationed in the Machias office. In 1989 he was promoted to a research fisheries biologist with the IF&W out of the Bangor research office. In 1991 he was promoted to inland fisheries management biologist with IF&W in the Grand Lakes Region of Downeast Maine. In 2006 he was promoted to Assistant Regional Fisheries Biologist with IF&W working out of the Jonesboro office, covering the Downeast region. In 2007, Greg was given the Maine inland fisheries & wildlife fisheries biologist of the year award. In 2010 he was promoted to the position of Regional Fisheries Biologist for the Downeast fisheries management region working out of the IF&W Jonesboro office. In 2017 Greg received IF&W’s lifetime outdoor achievement award. In 2024 Greg retired as the Downeast Fisheries Resource Supervisor for the Grand Lakes Region at the IF&W Jonesboro office.

He currently has his own inland fisheries consulting business and travels around New England working for private landowners. He and his wife, Sue, currently live in their home they built on Eastern Harbor in South Addison. They have three children, Ashley, Taylor, and Sutton. Greg is a Master Maine Guide who enjoys hiking, canoeing, sea kayaking, hunting, fishing, and golfing. Greg is a periodic guest host of The Maine Outdoors radio show on 103.9 FM at Blueberry Broadcasting in Bangor, Maine, on Sunday nights at 7:00 p.m. Wolf Runner is his first book.