Bruce Gordon Elliot is now retired following thirty years of service with the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG). He retired in October 1999 as the DFG's Senior Biologist Supervisor for the south Central California Coast District, the nine counties south of San Francisco.

Bruce continues actively into his twenty-ninth year as an instructor with the University of California Santa Cruz Extension and has conducted over 350 individual program presentations on over 200 topics related to biology, natural history, resource management as well as Amerindian and Mesoamerican archeology and ethnology.

He has served as an editorial advisor to the University of California Press and the National Geographic Society, has published papers in natural history, primarily on aspects of ornithology in several technical journals, and is life member of the Cooper Ornithological Society and the American Ornithologists Union. He is also president of a private natural history touring club which conducts expeditions for its membership at far-flung locations about the world.

Bruce obtained his undergraduate degree though studies at Wabash College and Western New Mexico University, and later conducted PhD Graduate studies at the University of Arizona. He is a former biologist researcher for the Southwestern Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History, served nearly six years in the U.S. Marine Corps, five years with the U.S. intelligence community and later with the Federal Aviation Agency. His wife, Mary, is a savings bank manager and his daughter Michelle is a graduate student at Arizona State University.