USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Specialist Grant Belden died on December 7, 2016 when the airplane he was flying on a predator control flight crashed in Big Horn County, Wyoming after an aerodynamic stall.
Belden was born on December 7, 1982 in Colorado. He obtained a degree in Rangeland Management and Watershed Ecology from the University of Wyoming and began working for the USDA in 2007.