About Us
U.S. Staff
Employees
Guido Rahr, President & Chief Executive
Mr. Rahr earned a Masters of Environmental Studies from Yale University and has 22 years of experience developing programs for regional and international conservation organizations. Under his leadership the Wild Salmon Center has grown into the first international salmon conservation organization, with 37 staff and programs in the US Pacific Northwest, Russia and Japan. Guido led the development of the salmon stronghold strategy, which has resulted in the protection of over a million acres of salmon habitat in some of the most productive salmon rivers along the northern Pacific Rim.
Before coming to the Wild Salmon Center in 1998, Mr. Rahr was the Associate Director of Oregon Trout, where his work won the President's Fisheries Conservation Award from the American Fisheries Society. Mr. Rahr has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme where he led the development of the Kamchatka Salmon Conservation and Sustainable Use Project, and the Rainforest Alliance where he worked on Amazon fish conservation projects. From 1985 to 1990 Mr. Rahr worked with the Nature Conservancy and later Conservation International as a Program Officer working to establish and support protected areas in the Mexican tropics.
Mr. Rahr is a member of World Conservation Union (IUCN) Salmon Specialist Group and is also an avid fly fisherman and fly tier who has fished for at least eighteen species of salmon, trout and char in Asia, North and South America and Europe. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Lee and their three boys.
Email: grahr@wildsalmoncenter.org
Jeffrey Baumgartner, Ph.D., Executive Vice President
Jeff joined the Wild Salmon Center in May 2008 as the Executive Vice President. He brings 20 years of experience in outcome-based conservation management to the position of Executive Vice President. For the past 17 years, Jeff has been a leader in the development and application of The Nature Conservancy's conservation approach, especially conservation action planning and conservation measures of success. Prior to working for The Nature Conservancy, he worked on environmentally compatible public water supply projects in Florida. Jeff received his B.A. in biology from the University of California at Los Angeles, his doctorate in evolutionary biology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and did postgraduate work in behavioral ecology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Lucy Bernard, Deputy Director, State of the Salmon
Lucy joined the Wild Salmon Center in 2004, where she has been instrumental in building WSC's development program, most recently as Director of Grant Programs. Over the past two decades she has had the privilege of collaborating with a number of outstanding organizations and community leaders to develop and fund innovative projects to address environmental, social and economic challenges, including facilitating the founding of a national coalition of immigrant worker organizations. She earned her B.S. in Biology from Cornell University and has eight years of experience in biological research and salmon data management. Working for the Wild Salmon Center has provided fertile ground for Lucy to couple her roots in biology with a strong strategic sensibility and program management skills developed over her years of experience in community organizing and development. Lucy is fluent in Spanish and enjoys coaching her daughter's soccer team and engaging in various outdoor pursuits with her family.
Greg Block, J.D., VP Conservation Finance and External Affairs
Mr. Block joined the Wild Salmon Center in September 2004. In his former position as the Director of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation based in Montreal, Canada, Mr. Block managed a staff of 20 senior managers working in the areas of international conservation of biodiversity; trade and environment; pollutants and health; and law and policy. He has led interdisciplinary teams on regional conservation initiatives in North America, and chaired several senior advisory groups. As a result of his international environmental work, he brings strong relationships with North American non-governmental organizations, government officials and universities. Mr. Block also served as the 2002-2004 Distinguished Environmental Law Scholar at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College, and taught environmental law in Mexico under the auspices of a Fulbright Lecture Grant.
Email: gblock@wildsalmoncenter.org
Mikhail (Mihael) Blikshteyn, Fisheries Biologist
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Mihael grew up in New York City, but has called Juneau, Alaska his home for the past ten years. Mihael's fisheries experience includes groundfish, shellfish, and salmon work in Alaska and California, and has taken him from commercial fishing vessels in the Bering Sea to subsistence boats in East Africa. He has spent the last three years in Alaska on the board of directors of a non-profit organization working to promote sustainable practices in Alaska and raise awareness about the interdependence of people and the ocean. In his spare time, Mihael's passion for photography turned into a creative photography business specializing in lifestyles, fisheries, tourism and conservation issues. He is very excited to have found an organization that allows him to combine his fisheries background, enthusiasm for conservation work, and ability to use his Russian language skills.
Tyler Bradford, IT Manager
Tyler received his BA in Religious Studies from Connecticut College in 2000. He then immediately realized that there was no such thing as a "college cafeteria" in the real world, and began to worry. Luckily, Tyler was able to parlay a misspent childhood of basking in the green glow of a DOS prompt and hard drives the size of a Hummer into a career in IT. In addition to his role as IT Manager for Wild Salmon Center, he is the sole proprietor of Old Town Computers, a computer repair and retail shop. Tyler considers his two greatest technical achievements discovering an undocumented bug in WSC's Exchange mail server, and resurrecting a dead XBOX 360 using tinfoil and a $20 paint stripping heat gun from Home Depot. He is blissfully married to his lovely wife, Beth, and complains a lot about his two dogs, Biscuit and Bear, but still loves 'em.
Email: tyler@wildsalmoncenter.org
Brian Caouette, Director of Sustainable Fisheries and Markets Program
Brian joined Wild Salmon Center in 2004 and currently serves as Director of the Sustainable Fisheries and Markets Program. He is responsible for program leadership, strategy development, and coordination with partners. Brian received his MA in International Environmental Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a BA from Boston University. Formerly, Brian has worked with a variety of non-profit organizations including Pacific Environment and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, as well as lived and worked full time at two overseas nature parks: Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use in the Russian Far East and the Animal Refuge Kansai in the hills above Osaka, Japan. Brian was a David L Boren Graduate Fellow in 2002 and was also awarded a US State Department Diplomacy Fellowship.
Olga Churkina, Western Pacific Program Assistant
Russian born, but Oregon grown Olga has moved to the United States with her parents at the age of 12. Following her passion for the arts she graduated from the Art Institute of Portland with background in Film and Design Management. Her thesis was a short film called: "Designing the New World: Turning Crisis into Potential" that inspired young people to be more aware about the environment and what they could do to preserve it. She has spent the last two years traveling the world, having lived in Ireland and China and taking the opportunity to travel through many interesting places. In her leisure time she enjoys yoga, the outdoors and learning about new cultures and ways of living.
Nelea Covaliova-Waer, Staff Accountant
Nelea (Nelly) is a native Russian, who was born in Uzbekistan and raised in Moldova. She came to the United States as a student in 2005 after completing her freshman year at Far Eastern State University of Humanities in Khabarovsk, Russia. She worked for the Wild Salmon Center Kamchatka Program in 2007 and 2008 while attending Portland State University and received a degree in Communications and now serves as Accounting Clerk. Nelly's broad range of interests includes: art, yoga, cooking, and an unbelievable fascination with medieval European history.
Kim Dunlap, Development Associate
A New England native, Kim recently relocated to Oregon to explore the Pacific Northwest and has loved it ever since. Kim received her B.A. in International Relations from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, and before joining the Wild Salmon Center spent four years in Washington, DC working with the American Cancer Society, coordinating their membership program and supporting their advocacy efforts to help cancer patients and caregivers. An avid outdoorswoman and traveler at heart, Kim is thrilled to apply her skills to international salmon conservation. In her free time she enjoys hiking, cooking, playing lacrosse and exploring Portland.
Email: kdunlap@wildsalmoncenter.org
Devona Ensmenger, Washington Program Manager, Port Angeles, Washington
An outdoorswoman native to the Pacific Northwest, Ms. Ensmenger joined the Wild Salmon Center in 2006. Ms. Ensmenger is disciplined in physical geography, biology, and environmental science from Central Washington University, where she conducted international cross-discipline research in China (Beijing) as a NCUR/Lancy scholar and in Indonesia (Bali and Borneo) as a Brooks-Shaw scholar. Ms. Ensmenger has researched and engaged in recovery efforts on river systems in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, focusing on threatened and endangered species such as spring Chinook salmon and bull trout. Most recently, she served on the Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project analyzing hatchery and wild salmonid interactions utilizing a suite of ecological indicators. Currently, Ms. Ensmenger is engaging Olympic Peninsula stakeholders on a conservation agenda to spark collaborative stewardship and support for the protection of the most biologically diverse and intact salmon watersheds in Washington.
Randy Ericksen, Salmon Management Specialist
Randy brings over 25 years of experience working in the areas of salmon stock assessment, monitoring, escapement goal evaluation and run forecasting. He worked for Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Sport Fish Division in its Southeast Region gaining strong, applied experience -- finishing his tenure at ADFG with oversight for management and research activities in the Haines/Skagway area. More recently, Randy worked for an Oregon consulting firm as a senior fisheries scientist where he evaluated salmon habitat and habitat development projects, including using salmon life cycle analysis in the Klamath River basin to assess water diversion activities on listed coho salmon. Randy's work with the Wild Salmon Center provides scientific and technical support to develop new salmon conservation policies and management practices around the Pacific Rim.
David Finkel, Director of Development and Communications
David Finkel has over twelve years of experience in the fields of conservation, business development, and communications and marketing. Before coming to the Wild Salmon Center, David worked for other environmental NGOs in programmatic, fundraising, and communications roles, worked in San Francisco's business sector, and spent time as a freelance writer and as a wilderness guide in the Rocky Mountains, Alaska, and the Yukon Territory, Canada. David holds a Bachelor's Degree from Colgate University and a Masters of Environmental Studies from The Evergreen State College. A native of the Pacific Northwest, David lives in Portland and enjoys backpacking, photography, and fly fishing.
Email: dfinkel@wildsalmoncenter.org
Laurele Fulkerson, Government Affairs Program Manager
Laurele joined the Wild Salmon Center in 2007, bringing a legal background and extensive experience in environmental advocacy, policy work, and government relations to the organization. She manages Wild Salmon Center's federal legislative efforts, focusing primarily on increasing U.S. government support and funding for the implementation of salmon stronghold conservation strategies in the U.S. and Russia. Before joining the Wild Salmon Center, Laurele was the Northwest Regional Director for the Alaska Coalition, where she worked to raise the visibility of threats to Alaskan public lands and advocate for their conservation through congressional outreach, coalition-building, grassroots organizing, and media relations. Prior to that, she helped protect important aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems in the Southwest while working for Wild Earth Guardians. She holds a J.D. and Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources from Lewis & Clark Law School, and a B.A. in Political Science with an emphasis in International Relations from UC Santa Barbara.
Anya Gabis,Director of Finance and Administration
Anna joined Wild Salmon Center in 2004 as a corporate controller. She began her accounting career working for six years in corporate accounting with Primorsky Zavod, a Russia-based holding company, engaged in ship repair industry, where as Deputy Chief Accountant on taxation she helped lead general accounting and financial reporting functions. She holds a master's degree in engineering from Siberian Metallurgical Institute in Novokuznetsk, Russia, and a B.S. degree in Accounting from Portland State University. In addition to her formal degrees, she has passed the Uniform CPA examination in 2009 and is considering continuation of her professional education in accounting field. When not working at WSC, Anya enjoys traveling throughout the Pacific Northwest and Europe with her family and spending time with her friends in the Portland area.
Email: agabis@wildsalmoncenter.org
Amber Gladieux, GIS Analyst
Amber came to the Wild Salmon Center in May 2009. She received a Graduate Certificate in GIS from Portland State University in 2009, and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Recreation from the University of Idaho, and an Associate's degree in Fish and Wildlife Management from Hocking College in Ohio. In her spare time Amber likes to explore Portland by bike, snowboard, canoe, travel and go camping in the great Northwest.
Jessica Houston, Administrative Assistant
Jessica Houston grew up on the outskirts of NE Portland in a community with many immigrants. Her early interests in her Russian speaking neighbors led her to study International Affairs and Russian at Lewis & Clark College. She has also studied abroad at the Far Eastern State University in Vladivostok, Russia. Last year Jessica completed a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship in Southern Russia. Her research and community work focused on Media Education and she found sharing the work of environmental organizations with Russian university students most rewarding. Since living on the arid steppe of Russia, Jessica has a newfound appreciation for the misty Pacific Northwest. In her spare time you can find her reading or sketching.
Lori Alexander Howk, Communications Manager
Lori has a diverse range of experience working in communications for both agencies and corporate clients and is now thrilled to apply her knowledge to the non-profit sector. From web and media to marketing strategy and design, she has all aspects of communication covered to best tell the Wild Salmon Center story. Consistently striving to find a balance between her two passions - science and art -- Lori has both a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Virginia (with an emphasis in Psychobiology) and an AA in Visual Communications Technology. The northwest has been her home since 1995 and while she takes every opportunity she can to travel and see the world, she enjoys the multitude of cultural and recreational activities Portland provides.
Yuliya Klichkova, Western Pacific Program Associate
Yuliya Klichkova is a Kamchatka native and currently serves as the Russia program assistant for the Wild Salmon Center. Yuliya's expertise is in human relations particularly through her role as a translator, interpreter, and project coordinator. During the summers of 2007- 2008 Yuliya worked on a project for the National Geographic Society, which resulted in the published article titled "Kamchatka salmon: Where salmon rule." Previously, Yuliya worked for five years on fly fishing camps in Kamchatka. Yuliya graduated from Kamchatka State University with a degree in English as Second Language (ESL) and Interpreting.Yuliya grew up eating, fishing, and enjoying the benefits of wild salmon ecosystems. In her spare time she is an orchid addict who loves to cook, garden and dance.
Julie Kuchepatov, Sustainable Fisheries & Markets Program Manager
Julie was raised in Portland and stayed close to home receiving her bachelor's degree in Foreign Languages (Russian and French) from Lewis and Clark College and recently earned her MA in communications at Portland State University. She worked for 12 years as part of a team running one of the most successful sport fishing lodges in Russia. This position allowed her to gain valuable tundra experience and fine-tune her Russian language skills. Her role at Wild Salmon Center focuses on sustainable fisheries work on Sakhalin and putting her logistical and communications skills to work in support of the Sakhalin Salmon Initiative. Her extracurricular activities are dedicated solely to her two fabulous daughters, except when she is wine-tasting with her husband.
Rich Lincoln, State of the Salmon Director
Rich has 33 years of varied experience in fisheries research, management, and policy in the Pacific Northwest as well as working on global fisheries sustainability. A graduate of the University of Michigan, a central focus of his career has been promoting the use of best available science in sound resource management decision-making. Prior to joining the Wild Salmon Center Rich was International Policy Director with the Marine Stewardship Council in London, UK. Other past roles have included bi-lateral chair of the Pacific Salmon Commission's Fraser Panel under the U.S.-Canada Salmon Treaty, leading development of Washington State's Wild Salmonid Policy and Wild Stock Initiative, and developing cooperative management arrangements with Northwest treaty Indian tribes. Rich has a strong history of involvement and leadership in salmonid research program's including hatchery supplementation, freshwater productivity evaluation, and development and application of salmonid stock identification techniques to improved fishery management. Rich's diverse skills and experiences collaborating with salmon researchers, policy makers, and managers around the Pacific Rim create a great fit for leading the State of the Salmon Program.
Leila Loder, Western Pacific Program Manager
Leila holds a master's degree in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University (U.S.) and a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Public Relations from Saint Petersburg State University (Russia). Her multidisciplinary background includes cross-cultural environmental work and project management, bilingual editing, journalism, photography, marketing and public relations. Leila grew up in Moscow, and her childhood was filled with weeks-long backpacking and kayaking trips in Russia. Her appreciation for nature eventually grew into passion for healthy ecosystems throughout the world. She is the founder of Russian Visions, a travel company that organizes ethno-ecological trips to Russia.
Email: lloder@wildsalmoncenter.org
Sarah Lonigro, Executive Assistant
Sarah joined the Wild Salmon Center in February, 2008. Prior to the Wild Salmon Center, she worked with Open Source Development Lab and Intel. Sarah brings over twelve years of professional experience to the Salmon Center. She holds a B.A. from the University of Montana in French Language and Literature with an emphasis in International Studies. Sarah has traveled extensively and spent two years in France living in Burgundy as an exchange student. Originally from the Northwest, in her free time, she enjoys the outdoors and is an avid traveler and reader.
Jennifer Niemeck, Office and Human Resources Manager
Jennifer Niemeck is originally from Washington D.C. and has lived and traveled in many colorful places. After attaining a B.A. in Philosophy at U.C. Berkeley, she spent seven years in Brazil. Thereafter, she moved to Oregon where she has lived for the past six years. "For a city, Portland is incredibly livable," says the mother of two.
Jennifer brings to the Wild Salmon Center a true appreciation of conservation and protection of ecosystems. She spent the last four years as a personal assistant to a board member of several non-profits, an international attorney, and most recently as an Executive Assistant. She offers a variety of skills that support the day to day well-being of the Wild Salmon Center. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, culinary arts, and hot springs.
Amee Pacheco, Grant Programs Coordinator
A Portland native, Amee has spent the past four years in nonprofit development, most recently managing the grants program at a local educational organization. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management, both from the University of Oregon. Amee has worked and volunteered in a variety of fields including animal advocacy, child abuse prevention, international aid, and education in the both the U.S. and Cambodia. When not writing grants she enjoys hiking, knitting, reading, and spending time with her many pets.
Peter Rand, Ph.D., State of the Salmon Senior Conservation Biologist
Peter Rand has more than sixteen years of experience in basic and applied aquatic ecology, with a focus on fisheries science, management, and conservation. Peter is a graduate of Colgate University and received his master's and doctoral degrees from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Peter was a postdoc at the University of British Columbia from 1995-1997 and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology at NC State University from 1997-2003. Peter has authored 16 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, and numerous other publications. Since his master's thesis, Peter's research has focused on Pacific salmonids in collaborative work with scientists in the Laurentian Great Lakes region, Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska. In recent years he has broadened his research program to include studies of tropical and subtropical fisheries. Peter has expertise in modeling and statistical analyses, and has been involved in the development and application of field sampling equipment and computer software useful in fisheries science.
Email: prand@wildsalmoncenter.org
Saule Richardson, Sustainable Fisheries and Markets Program Assistant
Saule is originally a Kazakh, born in Uzbekistan and raised in Tajikistan. She have a Master's degree in History from the Tajik State University. Before coming to the U.S., Saule had worked as a Consular and Administrative Assistant for the Royal Dutch Embassy in the Republic of Kazakhstan. She also has experience working as as a Domestic Violence Client Advocate for the Russian Oregon Social Services. Currently, Saule is working towards a certificate in Paralegal Studies program at Clark Community College. In her free time she enjoys spending time with family, reading books, watching movies, and travelling throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Mark Trenholm, Salmon Stronghold Program Manager
Mark Trenholm joined the Wild Salmon Center in 2008. Prior to taking this position, Mark worked for seven years as the Executive Director of the Tillamook Bay National Estuary Project. Serving a diverse, multi-stakeholder Board and managing an eight person staff, Mark oversaw the implementation of almost 200 salmonid habitat enhancement, monitoring, and education projects. Prior to his work with the National Estuary Project, Mark managed a range of resource planning and community development projects as a planning consultant. He holds a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and a Masters of Community and Regional Planning from the University of Oregon. Mark enjoys steelheading, Red Sox baseball, and exploring the places salmon swim.
Trozell Weaver, North America Program Associate
Trozell joined the Wild Salmon Center in July 2008. She is a Portland native who loves her Pacific Northwest roots and has a deep passion for salmon conservation. Trozell received her B.A. in International Relations and Global Affairs from Eckerd College in Florida. She also studied in Spain, attended the Universidad de Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied conflict resolution at the United Nations. Before joining the Wild Salmon Center, Trozell was a professional caregiver to her uncle who suffered from ALS (commonly known as, Lou Gehrig's disease) and an Intern for the Film Connection at Mercy Corp in Portland. In her free time Trozell enjoys backpacking, rock climbing, cooking, soccer, skiing and traveling.
Email: tweaver@wildsalmoncenter.org
Bob Van Dyk, Forest Policy Manager
Bob follows forest policy for the Wild Salmon Center, with much of his work focused on Oregon's state-owned Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests. These state forests cover the Coast Range between the Pacific Ocean and the Portland Metropolitan area, and they are home to some of the strongest wild salmon runs left in the state. Bob's background is in forest policy and academia. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington, and he has worked for 15 years at Pacific University in Forest Grove, where he has served as the associate dean and the chair of the Department of Political Science. Bob is also trained in GIS, and he has a special passion for illustrating public policy through maps. In his spare time Bob tends a big garden, chases his kids, and gets lost on the back roads of Oregon's fabulous public lands.
Email: bvandyk@wildsalmoncenter.org
Laura Williams, Senior Advisor, Western Pacific Programs
Laura is formerly head of the WWF Russia Kamchatka/Bering Sea Program, where much of her work was focused on salmon and ecosystem conservation. Laura has been actively involved in Russian nature conservation since 1993, when she moved to Russia to open the first office of WWF in Moscow. She lived for nearly 10 years in a remote nature reserve and wrote a book on her experiences, called The Storks' Nest: Life and Love in the Russian Countryside. She received a bachelor's from Cornell University in International Environmental Policy and a Master's from the Yale Forestry School in Conservation Biology. Her interests include biodiversity conservation, protected areas, and climate adaptations in Russia. She lives in Russia with her two sons and husband, Russian nature photographer Igor Shpilenok (www.shpilenok.com).
Mariusz Wroblewski, Western Pacific Program Director
From 1994-2002, Mariusz managed the Ponoi and Yokanga river fly fishing operations in the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia, where he oversaw conservation programs with the Atlantic Salmon Federation and Knipovich Polar Institute in Murmansk. From 2006-2011, Mariusz was Skeena River Program Director at Ecotrust in Portland Oregon. In this capacity, he helped to form the Skeena Wild Conservation Trust and serves as a Trustee. In 2010, Mariusz worked for WSC on contract, when he traveled to Moscow, Khabarovsk, and Kamchatka to advise our partners on promoting best practices in sport fishing. Mariusz speaks fluent Russian, Polish, and English, and is a PhD candidate degree from UC Berkeley in Slavic Languages and Literature. Mariusz is also a professional fly fishing guide and instructor. He was a member of the US tournament casting team in 1993, and in 2006 won the World Spey (two-handed) Casting Championship at the Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club in San Francisco.
Aleksandr Yatskov, Western Pacific Program Grants Coordinator
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine, Aleksandr arrived to the U.S in April 1993. He received a Bachelors degree in Business Management from Phoenix University in December of 2003. He possess over ten years experience providing management, administrative and human resources support. His interests include camping; fishing; playing soccer, ice and roller hockey, volleyball, ping pong, tennis, and guitar.
Consulting Partners
Olga Krever, Russian Policy Advisor
Olga Krever is an expert on protected areas and biodiversity conservation in Russia. She is assisting WSC on protected areas policy issues in Russia, including creation and financing of a network of salmon strongholds on Kamchatka. Olga works in close cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and is involved in several projects for the Ministry, for UNDP, WWF-Russia, as well as consulting government representatives in different administrative regions of Russia. She has also served as Head of the Protected Areas Legislative Department and Deputy Head of the Department of State Policy on Environment of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.
Email: okrever@mail.ru
Jay Nicholas, Senior Salmon Scientist
Jay Nicholas brings 30 years of distinguished experience as a fisheries biologist. Jay's work as a fisheries scientist within Oregon agencies included the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Governor's Office, and the Watershed Enhancement Board. His fisheries expertise is founded on a technical and intuitive understanding of wild Pacific salmon and historical management paradigms. Jay's fisheries policy work included leading a team of scientists and stakeholders who produced the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds. Jay dreams of wild salmon and healthy rivers. His passion for fish and family inspires his dedication to protecting the best remaining North American ecosystems, salmon, and our children's future. And by the way, he is a well-seasoned fly tyer and fly fisher.
Email: jaynicholas@comcast.netGordie Reeves, Visiting Scientist
Gordie Reeves is a Research Fish Biologist in the PNW Research Station of the U.S. Forest Service where he has worked for 25 years. His expertise is in the freshwater ecology of anadromous salmon and trout, conservation biology of those fish, and aquatic aspects of landscape ecology. He has studied the ecology of anadromous salmon and trout in the Pacific Northwest, northern California, Idaho, and Alaska and fish ecology in New Zealand and New York. He has published over 50 papers on the freshwater ecology of Pacific salmon and trout, effects of land management activities on the freshwater habitats of these fish, conservation plans, and dynamics of aquatic ecosystems in the PNW. Gordie received several awards for his work from the Forest Service and the Pacific Rivers Council. He was a member of committees that developed and evaluated management options for managing federal lands in the PNW and Alaska. He currently serves as the Team Leader of the Aquatic and Land Interaction Program at the PNW Station in Corvallis. He also currently is a member of the NOAA Fisheries Technical Recovery Team for coho salmon in coastal Oregon. He has been a co-leader of the Coastal Landscape Analysis and Modeling Study, a long-term, large, interdisciplinary project to model and evaluate forest policy effects at multiple scales. He commercially fished for salmon in northern California during the summers while in graduate school.
Email: greeves@wildsalmoncenter.org
Interns
Perry Broderick, Social Media Intern
Perry is assisting Communications with social media and outreach. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon; the core of his studies was International Development focusing on the themes of community development, cross-cultural communication, the potential of non-profits, and developmental issues (such as sustainable seafood harvesting). He has also worked as a commercial fisherman in Bristol Bay, Alaska for the past eight summers and has a real passion for salmon conservation and enthusiasm for our mission.