In 2008, John and Terry returned to the Piedmont Triad John worked briefly for the NC Wildlife Resource Commission, then went on to teach biology and environmental science classes at Forsyth Technical Community College, Winston Salem State University, and High Point University before retiring in 2020. John started his own business, Coastal Plains Wildlife, where he conducted surveys on manatees, alligators, deer, and gopher tortoises, assisted private landowners with nuisance wildlife issues, and taught classes at the University of Florida. While working, John attended the University of Florida earning his Doctorate in Wildlife Ecology. John conducted research on black bears and fox squirrels, and assisted the other biologists researching Florida panthers, alligators, sandhill cranes, gopher tortoises, and many other species. A year later, John transferred to the Game & Fish Commission research laboratory in Gainesville, Florida, where their daughter, Sara, was born. John accepted a job working as a wildlife biologist for the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission in Panama City, Florida, where their son, Frank, was born.

John and Terry moved to Starkville, Mississippi, where John attended graduate school at Mississippi State University, earning a Master’s in Wildlife Ecology. On Mathe nurse, no longer a stranger, became his wife. John graduated from NC State in 1980 with a major in Wildlife Ecology.

She was a friend of his roommate’s girlfriend, who had arranged the meeting between the two. During college one night, he came home from school to find a strange nurse, Terry Moir, eating his leftovers. After graduating high school, John attended NC State University.

Soon after, the family, which included his two sisters, moved to Greensboro, NC to be close to extended family. John was born on Februto Jack and Helen Capron Wooding at Tripler Army Hospital in Honolulu, where his father was serving in the US Marines. John Bruce Wooding passed away peacefully at home on Friday, November 3, surrounded by his loving family, after suffering an extended illness.

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