Department News & Views

Winter 2000-2001 Message from the (Interim) Department Head Change is Good

In this holiday season, the this message. We all owe Erik a big “Thanks!” Department of Fisheries Though we will miss him, we are fortunate to have and Wildlife and our such a strong advocate for the Department in the extended family of alums dean’s office. and friends have much to The most significant change in the Department give thanks for. We who is a bunch of new faces—several people have follow Beaver sports, and joined or are about to join the family. Mary who doesn’t these days, Holbert in Newport and Frank Burris in Gold have been amazed and Continued on page 2 delighted at the change in our sports programs. Beaver football has gone from chronic losing seasons to Top-10 standing over Inside Page a 2-year period, including a trip to the Fiesta Bowl New Faculty 3 on January 1. Our women’s basketball team is off to Awards 5 an excellent start as well. Your Department of Jarvis Retires 6 Fisheries and Wildlife has not had a losing season New Distance Course 6 for years, but change is good even for teams that are Campells are Diamond Pioneers 6 perennial winners. Alumni Reception 6 Many changes are occurring in and around From the Mailbag 7 Nash Hall, and, except for this first item, they are overwhelmingly positive. After six years as Depart- Student News 8 ment Head, Erik Fritzell accepted a job as Associ- Donor List 9 ate Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences. Call for Nominations – Registry of Erik’s visionary leadership resulted in significant Distinquished Graduates 10 changes in most everything we do, from our curricu- Obituary – Jack Donaldson 10 lum to collaboration across campus. Erik also Views from the Past 11 brought about many of the other changes detailed in Change—continued from page 1 Guillermo Giannico, our new Extension Fisheries Specialist, will also join us in January. Guillermo is a Beach are new Extension Watershed Agents who salmonid ecologist and watershed educator from the joined our faculty this year (see biographical University of British Columbia. His primary mission sketches in this issue). Mary and Frank significantly will be to focus on educational outreach supporting enhance the Department’s extension programming the Plan for Salmon and Watersheds. capabilities and bring some badly needed vertebrate Michael Banks, a fish geneticist with an appoint- ecology to watershed planning efforts in the state. ment at the Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Several new faculty will be joining us in the Station in Newport, will arrive in March. Michael next few months. Selina and Scott Heppell, new will direct a service laboratory for the state and will marine ecologists, begin their appointments in focus on stock identification. January. Selina comes to us from a post-doc at There will be some, as yet, unidentified faces EPA, and Scott was already a post-doc in Carl coming to the Department in the near future as well. Schreck’s lab. Look for bios on this dynamic duo We are now searching for an individual to replace in the summer issue of News and Views. Ian Bob Jarvis, who retires this month (replacing Bob Fleming will be a salmonid ecologist in our Depart- is probably not the right way to think about this ment with an appointment at the Coastal Oregon position—see the notice on p. 6 about plans for a Marine Experiment Station in Newport, and will retirement bash for Bob). The new person will be a also arrive in January. Ian’s research will focus on wetland avian ecologist. Look for interviews for this salmon in marine environments. The addition of position in February or March. The Department Selina, Scott, and Ian to our faculty significantly Head position will be announced soon, with inter- enhances our expertise in marine fisheries. views probably occurring in late winter or early spring. Finally, the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station is about to hire a vertebrate habitat ecologist to be stationed in Union. It is not clear whether this will be an aquatic or terrestrial person, but it is likely the person will choose our Department as his or her academic home. Interviews for this position will be News and Views is an alumni newsletter published in January or February. twice a year by the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. These exciting changes in our faculty offer the Department an unparalleled opportunity to reevalu- Editor—Jim Hall (Interim) ate our position in the state, region, and nation for providing teaching, research, and extended educa- Mission—The Department of Fisheries and Wildlife tion related to the conservation of fish and wildlife discovers, integrates, and disseminates knowledge about wildlife and fisheries resources, as well as resources. Be assured, we will continue to maintain ecosystems and human communities with which they our core programs that our reputation is based on, interrelate. We accomplish this through but these changes may open new strategic opportu- interconnected programs of: 1) undergraduate and nities as well. graduate education; 2) scholarly research; and 3) There have been or will be changes in the extended education. We educate diverse people in Oregon and around the world so they may make wise office support staff as well. Jane Toliver is the new decisions and take prudent actions to improve the Fish and Wildlife Research Units secretary. JoAnne quality, productivity, and sustainability of fish and Hensley, an accounting technician, joined the staff wildlife resources. in October and provides badly needed support in the administration of the Department’s grants and Comments, letters, and suggestions are welcome and should be addressed to: Editor, News and Views, contracts. We also will be hiring a Departmental Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State Computer Administrator in December to manage University, Corvallis, OR 97331-3803. our burgeoning computer networks and technical support needs. Continued on page 3

2 w Winter 2000–2001 Change—continued from page 2 Even the appearance of Nash Hall has changed. In September, we unveiled the mural series Linneaus that we commissioned by artist Amelia Tatala-Beck. The series received critical acclaim from local art enthusiasts, and has done a remark- able job of changing the appearance of Nash Hall. Next time you are in the neighborhood, stop in and check it out. And don’t forget to drop by my office—I am always interested in your thoughts about the changes in your department. Dan Edge New Faculty Mary Holbert Mary Holbert was born years doing culvert surveys of all the state and in 1958 in the Hudson county culverts in coastal drainage systems from River Valley of Upstate California to Washington, Mary was deemed fit to . Many of her interview for “biologist”. After several unsuccessful formative years were bids, she landed a job as the ODFW Watershed spent in the swamp down Council Liaison (aka woman- wearing- bull’s -eye- the hill and/or on the back who -attends- lots -of -public meetings). What of a horse. This is rel- appeared to be a welcome relief from implanting and evant to all that follows. extricating salmonberry thorns turned out to be Having an aversion to thorny in other ways. However, the new challenges study halls, Mary gradu- built nicely on all that grubbing around in the woods ated from high school at the tender age of 16 and type experience, and prepared Mary for application enrolled at Boston University’s College of Liberal to and subsequent employment by OSU Extension. Arts as a pre-veterinary student. Six months of all- Having arrived at Extension in April of 2000, expense-paid life at a private school was not so Mary sees her goal as finding common ground with different from the ho-hum of High folks who just don’t buy into the Oregon Plan, School and it was off to sunny California. ecosystem health, or any other agenda not perceived After a long, rewarding career as a fish filleter, as improving their bottom line. Believing it’s a matter interspersed with numerous educational interludes of changing perceptions, Holbert will pursue less and a couple of years of pig farming, Mary finally traveled avenues, seeking desired ends through non- buckled down and got educated at the esteemed U traditional means. Her experience leads her to of O. A Master’s in biology yielded a seasonal believe that providing people with objective, scien- position at ODFW, measuring halibut on the docks tifically based knowledge that is in direct opposition in Newport. Ironically, after carving up countless fish to their experience and world view generates a carcasses, then making a decision to move on to pretty non-productive reaction. She sees her mission bigger and better things, Mary found that higher as finding a way to describe how what is good for education led straight back to dead fish….. the watershed is good for you. Mary is currently Five years later, after trying out numerous exploring how some types of rural economic devel- seasonal positions including but not limited to: opment may yield appreciation of the value of spawning surveys, presence/absence surveys, watershed integrity in our coast range basins. aquatic habitat inventories, waterfowl surveys, deer Other venues are workshops aimed at answer- and elk surveys, juvenile salmonid population ing questions raised by flooded folks (seems like an estimate surveys, running fish traps, and two glorious Continued on page 4

News and Views w 3 New Faculty—continued from page 3 In her spare time, Mary is enrolled in the small business management program at Oregon Coast educational opportunity), where watershed function Community College. This effort supports her small but and process can be discussed in a non-salmon growing business, Mouse Works, a hobby gone awry. context. Mary believes that opportunities abound for Mouse Works is the mature person’s answer to pig innovative watershed education that works within the farming. The scale is smaller, the smells though world views of folks who don’t find salmon to be the offensive, are easily contained, and the environ- most interesting or important creature on this green mental impacts are negligible. earth. It’s all in figuring where to focus the laser Mary can be reached at the OSU Extension beam and how to capture the public imagination. Office in Newport, (541) 574-6534 or [email protected].

Frank Burris I was born in Northern guessed it, fish! Actually, I had the best job in the California, but grew up in world! I taught science teachers in Alaska Native Fairbanks, Alaska. I learned villages how to incorporate fisheries and water quality to love the outdoors and wild modules into their existing science curriculums. We things while very young. I grew fish eggs in the classroom and built and stocked studied wildlife biology at the streamside salmon egg incubators. I flew, boated, and University of Alaska snow machined over large portions of the state of Fairbanks (UAF), because of Alaska, and got paid for it. Unfortunately, the position my aversion toward cold was term funded, ending the best deal I ever had. slimy creatures and my Jan and I became co-owners of a 2,900 acre inability to remember all the ranch in the interior of Alaska, and raised and re- Latin names of so many plants. After using up 4 leased game birds as a pay-to-hunt operation. We also years of NCAA eligibility in rifle shooting, learning planted several hundred acres in barley, wheat, oats, how to sky dive, and falling somewhat short of a canola, and hay, yearly. Our season was limited to the degree, I opted to take a short hiatus from school and summer months so we taught high school during the make the big bucks in the logging industry. winters. Our business motto was “we cheat ourselves During that brief (8-year) respite from the and pass the savings on to you”, so, after losing as rigors of school I met and married a lovely woman much money as we could afford to lose, I began named Jan, who has stuck with me for almost 20 looking for another job in Extension. years (more a testimony to female persistence than I was incredibly lucky to land a Watershed any inherently SuperHusband-like qualities in me). Management position with OSU Extension. I get to The reality of trying to support a wife on logging work with ranchers, farmers, and private woodland wages drove me back to UAF to finish a B.S. in owners on projects to improve water quality, restore Wildlife Biology, followed by an M.S. in Wildlife fish populations, and create habitat for fish and Management, for which I researched the foraging wildlife endemic to the south coast of Oregon. We ecology of northern pintail ducks. I supported my and our black lab named Rozzy (who just had puppies, Grad school habit working as a teaching and re- does anyone need a puppy?) have been here since search assistant, and teaching The Natural History May 15th, and we all love it. It hardly ever rains here. of Alaska at UAF. Several summers during school I I’m beginning to think that all of the stories I’ve heard worked as a Fisheries Technician for the Alaska about rain are like the stories about the cold that we Department of Fish and Game, and as a waterfowl propagated in Alaska just to keep the tourists from biologist with the US Forest Service. falling in love and staying. With the ink not yet dry on my Master’s degree, You can reach Frank at the OSU Extension I began employment with the University of Alaska Office in Gold Beach, (541) 247-6672 or Cooperative Extension Service working with . . . you [email protected].

4 w Winter 2000–2001 Crawford, Schreck Receive Awards

On September 15, Dr. John A. Crawford, Profes- At the 123rd Annual Meeting of the American sor of Wildlife Ecology, was honored with two Fisheries Society, held in St. Louis in August, Dr. awards for his long-term research in wildlife conser- Carl B. Schreck received the Award for Excel- vation. A reception was held at the Memorial Union lence in Fisheries Education, the Society’s highest on the OSU campus. The Order of the Antelope, an education award. The purpose of the award is “to Oregon-based conservation organization of some publicly recognize excellence in organized teaching 2,500 members, presented Dr. Crawford their and advising in fisheries science or management”. “Award of Excellence” for his research on Sage Quoting from the citation: “Students and peers who Grouse and other species of wildlife in the Great wrote letters of support commonly referred to your Basin. The presentation was made by Dr. Richard uncanny ability to mentor students, your use of the A. Tubb of the Order of the Antelope and former ‘team effort’ method for education, and the fact that Head of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. you always demanded excellence, but showed great The second award also related to Dr. Crawford’s respect for skills and talents of individual students”. research work, particularly at Hart Mountain Carl, who received his Ph.D. from Colorado National Antelope Refuge in Oregon and at the State University, arrived at OSU in 1975 as Assis- Charles Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in Ne- tant Leader of the Cooperative Fishery Research vada. The “Certificate of Appreciation” was Unit. Now Professor of Fisheries, he has served as provided by Mr. Michael L. Nunn, the chief admin- Unit Leader since 1977. Carl has received several istrator of these refuges. The award was presented other awards for his research, which has centered by Dr. Daniel Roby of the Oregon Cooperative on environmental physiology of fishes. Special areas Wildlife Research Unit. of emphasis have included the effects of stress Dr. Crawford joined the OSU faculty in 1974 associated with dam passage and migration in the as an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology after Columbia River; fish development, particularly completing degrees at Creighton University (B.S.) in related to ocean entry by juvenile salmon and trout; Biology, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and effects of pollutants on fish health and reproduc- (M.S.) also in Biology, and Texas Tech University in tion in rivers and estuaries. He has supervised Range and Wildlife Management (Ph.D.). He approximately 50 M.S. and Ph.D. theses to date. established the Game Bird Research Program at Notably, of the 13 Awards of Excellence that OSU and focused his work on the habitat relation- have been given since the award was established in ships of game birds in North America and in several 1988, four have recognized our department. Carl other locations in the world. He has held numerous joins the ranks with two former students, Terry offices and editorial positions with professional Roelofs, Ph.D. ‘71, now teaching at Humboldt organizations and was recently elected to the Board State University, and Roy Stein, M.S. ‘71, now at of Directors of the North American Grouse Partner- State University, and one other faculty mem- ship, an international conservation organization. ber, Jim Hall.

Outstanding Graduate Student Award Wilfrido Contreras-Sanchez, a doctoral student achievements and for his service to both the working with Carl Schreck, received the 2000 University community and the profession. Again our Savery Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Department has achieved outstanding recognition. the College of Agricultural Sciences. Wilfrido was Our students have taken the Outstanding Doctoral cited for his academic and professional Student award in 4 of the last 12 years.

News and Views w 5 Bob Jarvis Retires–Bash Planned OSU Alumni Reception February 14, 2001—5:30-6:30 PM After 30 years in the Department of Fisheries and Grand Ballroom West Wildlife, Bob Jarvis is hanging up his lecture notes Jantzen Beach Double Tree Hotel, Portland effective December 31, 2000. (Actually, he is going Annual meeting of the Oregon Chapters of the to continue to use them for a couple of years on a American Fisheries Society & The Wildlife Society part-time teaching appointment, but he will be Immediately followed by a student mentoring session. officially retired). The Department is planning a fete in honor of his long and effective service to students Stop by and have a beer on us and provide some and to the natural resources of the Pacific North- sage advice to our students. west. We have reserved Tyee Winery in Corvallis for July 21st for a dinner and celebration. Circle the date on your calendar and plan to be at this special New Distance Ed Course Coming event. An added incentive to draw you to Corvallis that weekend is the annual DaVinci Days The Departments of Fisheries and Wildlife and celebration.Further details on the Jarvis party will be History have been awarded a grant for a joint mailed in May. In the meantime, be gathering up project to develop a new course for distance those photos and stories to share. delivery: “Ecology and History: Landscapes of the Columbia Basin”. Funding is through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Higher Education Challenge Grants Program, and extends for three years. Key personnel include Paula Minear (F&W Campbells are Diamond Distance Education Coordinator), William Robbins Pioneers (Department of History), and Erik Fritzell (College of Agricultural Sciences). The course will be offered Homer Campbell ‘48, M.S. ‘63, and his wife on an experimental basis this spring term and will be Meg were recently inducted into the College of finalized for distance delivery via videotapes and Agricultural Sciences Diamond Pioneer Agricultural web the following spring (2002). Achievement Registry. Homer was recognized for The purpose of this course is to offer a broad his contributions to fishery research and management inquiry into the lengthy and complex ecology and and for exceptional efforts in promoting conservation history of the extensive Columbia River Basin. of natural resources since his retirement. He was the Through guest lectures from regional experts, first Fisheries Agent in the Northeast Region for the accompanied by visual illustrations and readings, Oregon State Game Commission and served for students will be asked to examine the natural/ many years as Assistant Director (Fisheries) for the physical world of the Columbia Basin as it has Research Division of the Game Commission. Homer evolved since the Late Pleistocene. Special attention has been active with the Audubon Society and will be given to the interface between humans and Oregon Natural Desert Association, among other their surrounding landscapes. Students will explore conservation groups, since his retirement. in some detail the wide-ranging and progressively Meg was recognized for contributions to expanding cultural disturbances that have taken gardening, 4-H leadership, and especially for her place and the effects of these disturbances on natural work with the Greenbelt Land Trust, of which she processes and landscapes. Cost share assistance was a founder. The Trust has been active in land-use for this project will be provided by the Oregon planning and in presevation of open space in the Historical Society, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Corvallis area. the Center for the Study of Columbia River History. For further information, please contact Paula Minear at 1-800-261-7049.

6 w Winter 2000–2001 From the Mailbag . . . by W. Daniel Edge Editors Note: Lee Kuhn has not been feeling well of late and was unable to write this issue’s Mailbag. You might drop him a note to wish him well. Lee’s address is 5855 SW West Hills Road, Corvallis, OR 97333.

Morrie Naggiar, ‘48, has been working at the St. barbequed deer. Speaking of which, the Department is Louis Mission historical and archaeological site since planning a road-kill potluck for sometime in the spring. retirement from a career that included Biologist with Fish and Game on the St. Johns River, Infor- Darrell Gretz, ‘57, sent a check and some photos of a mation and Education Chief for Oregon Department of 90-pound, 71-inch paddle fish he caught in 1969 near Fish and Wildlife, and back to Florida to be supervisor the Slippery Ann Station on the Missouri River in of hatcheries and editor of Florida Wildlife magazine. Montana. That fish is longer and looks to be about as Morrie writes, “last year was the first year I haven’t heavy as you Darrell–must have been quite the experi- trapped since about year one.” ence getting that one in! Eldon “Korp” Korpela, ‘50, checked in to say he was Lane Widmark, ‘58, is keeping active. “After retiring one of the “unidentified” in the 1950 Fish and Game in 1987 from teaching school, I took on a non-paying graduation class photo in the summer 2000 issue of position in wildlife management. I’m in charge of News &Views. Following graduation, Korp worked trying to keep deer and rabbits out of our garden.” . . . for the Oregon Fish Commission for seven years “In 1981 I started bicycling and have solo-toured to before getting an Oregon teaching certificate. He Arkansas, Iowa twice, Washington to Maine twice, taught junior high and high school for 27 years and eight time across Oregon. We toured Nova Scotia and served on the STEP Advisory Committee for 15 years. PEI on our tandem plus lots of other bike-camping “I have gill netted the Columbia River for over fifty trips.” Thanks for the check, Lane; it will cover years and Bristol Bay and Cook Inlet, Alaska waters for postage and then some. 47 summers.” Don’t stop now Korp, and thanks for Russ Hanson, ‘69, writes he is Director of Environ- bucks in support of News and Views. mental Health for Crook County and does all the Another great letter and generous check from Jim Oregon Health Division programs plus the DEQ on-site Kahrs, ‘51, of Osage Beach Missouri. Jim has always septic program. Along the way, Russ got a M.S. in blamed Lee and Carl Bond for getting him into the Environmental Health and retired as a Major from the catfish rearing business. Of course they have always U.S. Army as an Environmental Science Officer. been all too willing to accept the blame (credit?), since Thanks for the check, Russ. his operation has grown from a small minnow farm to Dave Armstrong, M.S. ‘74, who has been on the the international fish farm known as Osage faculty of the School of Fisheries at the University of Catfisheries, Inc. with offices in the U.S., China, and Washington, was appointed Director of the School in Germany. Many honors and awards have come to Jim 1998. Any other place, he’d be called the Dean. and the Kahrs family, including Catfish Farmer of the Congratulations, Dave. Year from Catfish Farmers of America. In 1999 Jim was inducted into the American Fisheries Society Fish Pat O’Donogue, ‘77, writes “I am still in the Marine Culture Hall of Fame, and in 2000 the National Aquac- Corps after 23 years and have about three years left in ulture Association presented Jim with the Joe my stint. Was privileged to have been recently pro- McCraren Award for distinguished lifetime contribu- moted to Colonel and have assumed duties as the tions to Aquaculture. Not bad for a poor old Missouri Assistant Chief of Staff, G-7 at I Marine Expeditionary boy who just wanted to raise a few catfish! Force at Camp Pendleton, California.” Pat notes that he Karl Niggol, ‘55, wrote a wonderful letter expressing is hoping to try his hand at Wildlife Science after his gratitude to Lee Kuhn and the Department of retiring from the Marine Corps, and thanks Lee for his work on News and Views. And thanks to you, Pat, for Fisheries and Wildlife for some great memories of Corvallis. Karl immigrated to the U.S. just two years your contribution for printing expenses. prior to starting college at Oregon State. A career with Monty Gregg, ‘95, reports that he just got a permanent marine mammals following graduation led to adven- position as a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest tures all over the North Pacific Rim region. At 83, Karl Service in the Bend Ranger District. He and his wife is in good health, has his garden and a good view of the Carissa have a new baby daughter, as well. Congratula- Sound and Coast Range mountains from his Edmonds, tions, Monty. Washington home. He still remembers Lee’s road-kill Continued on page 8

News and Views w 7 Mailbag—continued from page 7 A get-well card to Lee Kuhn orchestrated by Jim Haas, ‘53, had notes from Bob Gunsolus, ‘50, Art Oakley, Congratulations and Best Wishes to ‘53, and Don Swartz, ‘65. Bob observed, “We’re kind Charles Warren, ‘49, M.S. ‘51, and Angie of like old cars–keep replacing and repairing until the Rands, who were married December 27 at a parts are too old.” Yeah Bob, and those “old cars” are large gathering of both families at Black Butte classics. Jim sends news of Carroll Rieck, ‘52, who has developed a novel way of making caretaking Ranch. You can drop a note to Charles and affordable and practical. Carroll and his wife, Ellen, Angie at P.O. Box 8054, Black Butte Ranch, who is ill, live in Pueblo, Mexico with a live-in Mexican OR 97759 couple as caregivers. Fish and Wildlife Club busy INTERN INTERVIEWS… The Fish and Wildlife Club started the quarter by or what do they learn? helping the Department put on a chicken barbeque “This experience has taught me how important it is to work and by taking new students on a hike to the top of together. When you put six people together, from all areas Marys Peak. Club members have already organized of the U.S., you have to expect a little controversy. I have several field trips for experiential learning, including learned how to be a better team player and found out that not all people are great to work with.” Christine Harty, Intern trips to learn wildlife tracking, experience deep sea – BLM Pryor Mtn. fishing, assist ODFW with chinook salmon seining, “One unique experience this summer was being the young- evaluate the condition of Oak Creek, and attend a est person in our crew. I was able to step back and compare meeting on rare carnivores. In addition, the Club my professional goals with theirs. I have concluded that I was active in community education events. They would rather not have to do such strenuous fieldwork by co- sponsored Museum Days at OSU,where over the time I become the age of many of the other workers.” Johnathon Bishop, Intern – USGS/Forest & Rangeland 600 elementary school students interacted with Ecosystem Study Center members to learn about wildlife; helped teach 6th “It has been a real eye-opener. I have had a unique graders about aquatic science through the Corvallis opportunity to become involved with and understand the Outdoor School; and assisted the Rocky Mountain private logging industry in a way I could never accomplish Elk Foundation put on Winter Camp, a statewide in the classroom. I hope to someday be able to work with cooperative private industries to find ways to work with public education event. The Club is also showing rather than against wildlife.” Joe Feldhaus, Intern – sound fiscal responsibility. Members have spon- Weyerhaeuser Corp. sored two fundraisers and developed a funding “I learned how important human dimensions are in natural proposal to the College of Agricultural Sciences. resource management. The public can often be difficult to Further, the Club was awarded almost $4,500 in deal with.” Tara Norris, Intern – ODFW grants from the E.R. Jackman Foundation. The “I have learned about self work ethic and how management funds will be used to facilitate the annual Spring of wildlife is tied into the culture of the area.” Garrett Break Trip and other events. This year the Club will Dorsey, Intern – ODFW be traveling to Death Valley and Yosemite National “Group dynamics have a great effect on the quality of work Parks. It should prove to be a valuable learning that is produced. We had some difficulties, but once I put myself in my teammates shoes I was able to accept their experience . . . not to mention a lot of fun! The Club special quirks and use them to our advantage. This ended the quarter on a fun note by holding the experience helped to narrow my career path. After this Faculty Finals Fish Fry, with members cooking fish summer I am leaning towards careers where I can do for faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students. management as well as public outreach.” Mika Snowbarger, Intern – USFS Although it took a VERY LONG TIME for the deep fryers to heat up, it was worth the wait—the “I saw firsthand the politics and limitations of working with a species in habitat that has been significantly altered. I fish proved to be very tasty and a good time was was able to be involved in a project that required coopera- had by all who attended. If you have any ideas for tion from other government agencies, which can be difficult the Club, contact Kevin Taft, Club president, at taft at times.” Jamie Wisnowski, Intern – USFWS Wolf Recov- ery Program @mailbox.orst.edu 8 w Winter 2000–2001 DONOR LIST The following people and organizations generously supported the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife during the year 2000, through November 30. A special thanks to all! John Adair George Harry III Gregory Oriet Les & Majorie Amick Robert & Joy Krein Edward & Pearl Ortner Barry & Linda Armentrout Ronald Hays Dean E Painter Norman & Donna Baldwin Charles & Doris Hazel John Palensky Curtis & Judi Bale Dale Hein Michael Passmore Norman & Donna Barrett Paul & Marilyn Hemerick Robert Personius Evelyn & Robert Beardsley Robert & Ann Herrmann Joe & Carol Pesek Daniel Beason Gary Hickman Patricia A. 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News and Views w 9 Registry of Distinguished seeking nominations for the 2001 inductees. Candidates should be nominated from among those Graduates OSU graduates with at least 20 years of experience in the field. Nominations can take many forms, but The Registry of Distinguished Graduates is intended should describe the highlights of the nominee’s to recognize a select few of our alumni who have professional career. A resume may be the most made major contributions to the field of fisheries and useful format, but a letter describing the nominee’s wildlife, and who have achieved real distinction in a career and achievements also would suffice. Please career in natural resource education, research, or send nominations by April 1, 2001 to: management. Department Head Nominations Sought for 2001 Inductees Department of Fisheries and Wildlife The committee for the Registry of Distinguished 104 Nash Hall Graduates, composed of two faculty, Carl Schreck Oregon State University and Hal Weeks, and two alumni, Mike Passmore, Corvallis, OR 97331-3803 ‘74, M.S. ‘77, and Rebecca Goggans, M.S. ‘86, is or e-mail: [email protected] Obituary . . . Jack Donaldson Dr. Jack Donaldson, a former management in the Pacific Northwest. professor in the Department of At the time of his death, Jack and his son Peter Fisheries and Wildlife, suffered a were working on a project called the Watershed heart attack in Portland and passed Legacy. Peter is hoping to make this project a legacy away on October 31, 2000. A for Jack and is working with Ecotrust and others to salmon feast tribute to Jack was make it a reality. Watershed Legacy would bring people held at the World Forestry Center together to volunteer their time, talents, and/or money on December 18th. Friends and to creatively explore new directions in watershed family shared memories and management, a process that became Jack’s passion in reflections, each adding a small recent years. Contact Peter Donaldson, Creative amount of water to a basin in the center of the circle. Director for Watershed Legacy Jack’s son Gordon opened the tribute with a heartfelt ([email protected]), for more information or to invitation to share and his son Peter closed the tribute volunteer assistance. Tax-deductible contributions for with his own reflections and a poem to his father. The establishing the Watershed Legacy Education Initiative tribute continued with a salmon feast and the sharing of in memory of the guiding spirit of Jack Donaldson can stories and renewal of friendships. Water from the be sent to Ecotrust, 1200 Northwest Naito Parkway, tribute basin was added to the Willamette River by Suite 470, Portland, OR 97209. Checks made out to family members. Ecotrust should be designated “Watershed Legacy” on Born on January 14, 1929, Jack got all three the memo line. degrees from the University of Washington, was a Jack Donaldson was a leader in the Department Fulbright Scholar in Norway, and worked for the of Fisheries & Wildlife, one of the early leaders in the Oregon Fish Commission and the Washington Depart- International Biological Program, developer of ment of Game before coming to Oregon State Univer- OreAqua, Director of the Oregon Department of Fish sity. He taught Limnology in the Department from 1966 & Wildlife, and leader of the Columbia Basin Fish and to 1973 and served as major professor for graduate Wildlife Authority. He was an eloquent and visionary students in limnology, stream ecology, and aquaculture. leader in the Pacific Northwest. With all the current Professionals in natural resource ecology and manage- attention to salmon carcasses and their role in aquatic ment throughout the Pacific Northwest and the nation and terrestrial ecosystems, it is notable that his re- frequently comment on Jack’s influence, inspiration, search on nutrient cycling from sockeye carcasses in and guidance in their lives. Mark Hutton, one of Jack’s Lake Illiamna pioneered this field. In 1971 he asked this graduate students and employee at OreAqua, noted naive Tennessee boy to come to Oregon to study the “The hundreds of students and co-workers that Jack role of carcasses in stream ecosystems under the IBP inspired are a timeless celebration of his life.” Jack’s Program at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. We science, ideas, and spirit are deeply woven into the will miss his wisdom and infectious smile. fabric of natural resource ecology and watershed Stan Gregory

10 w Winter 2000–2001 Views from the Past

What a blast! Dynamite ditching demonstration, February 28, 1942. Participants, all from the Class of ‘42 unless noted, include Austin Hamer, Harve Ronne ‘41, Cecil Whitmore ‘38, Don Barber, Don Vogtman, Virgil Lyon, Bob Mace, Wayne Young, Lee Kuhn, and Don Dickey.

This distinquished group gathered at the Oregon Wildlife Federation meeting in Corvallis, January 1970. From the left, George Eicher ‘41, Bill Morse ‘40, Prof. Dimick, Bob Mace ‘42, Bob Holloway ‘38, Phil Schneider ‘40, Dave Luman ‘48, and (in part) Andy Landforce ‘42.

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